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The Price Guide to Antique Silver
by Waldron, Peter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/Fine
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Spray, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Suffolk, England: The Antique Collectors' Club, 1982. Second Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the Price Guide Series, this being a Second Edition exemplar of the to-that-point definitive price guide to antique silver. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in gray buckram cloth, with gilt lettering to cover and to spine. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 1,100 photographs in black-and-white. Complete with laid-in price guide from 1983 in Fine condition. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.[4], 5-365 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 352224
- Title
- The Price Guide to Antique Silver
- Author
- Waldron, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- The Antique Collectors' Club
- Place of Publication
- Suffolk, England
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- Large 8vo 9" - 10
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Peter Waldron|price guide|antique silver|collectibles
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