Painting China for Pleasure and Profit
by Ruth Little
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Brack Publications, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1963. Fifth Printing. 290 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Flat signed by author to front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with mild tanning to edges. More pronounced to endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front endpaper. Noticeable areas of loss with scuffing and mild tape marks to pastedowns. Mild foxing to top text block edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1677487194ADA
- Title
- Painting China for Pleasure and Profit
- Author
- Ruth Little
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brack Publications
- Date Published
- 1963
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...