The Mode in Hats and Headdress
by R. Turner Wilcox
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Reprint. Quarto (11.25" x 7.25"); xiv, 332pp. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a few tears and chips along edges and at spine ends with some adjacent creasing, along with fading to spine, scuffs and smudges to surface with a small scribble to back, and a couple spots of tape repair to interior. Boards rubbed along edges with some exposure along bottom and at corners; head of spine chipped and frayed; spine cocked with a backwards lean to boards. Endpapers toned. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Synopsis
"This Dover edition, first published in 2008, is a republication of The Mode in Hat and Headdress Including Hair Styles, Cosmetics, and Jewelry, first published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1945"--T.p. verso.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12709
- Title
- The Mode in Hats and Headdress
- Author
- R. Turner Wilcox
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Jacket
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Edges
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....