The Pine Furniture of Early New England
by Kettell, Russell Hawes
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. [ca. 400] pages (including plates; chiefly unpaginated). Exhaustive coverage of the subject; notable for the reproductions of line drawings, as well as photographs. Foreword by Edwin J. Hipkiss; includes a short bibliography ('A Short List of Books and Museums'). One of 999 copies (the entire edition), printed on specially made paper by the Marchbanks Press, New York, November 1929. Wear to extremities (chiefly to head and foot of spine, spine label, corners and edges); slight stains, rubbing and browning to covers; previous owner's bookplate on front attached endpaper and rubberstamps on front and rear endpapers; previous bookseller's printed paper label on front attached endpaper; slight shaking to few signatures; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges and preliminaries, generally unaffecting images); still a very serviceable copy of a fairly scarce item.229 b/w photographs; 55 b/w Illustrations from Line Drawings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L048626
- Title
- The Pine Furniture of Early New England
- Author
- Kettell, Russell Hawes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Furniture Rare Bck United States New England Colonial 18th Century Pine Wood, , , , , , , ,
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About the Seller
Arundel Books of Seattle
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Seattle, Washington
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