BOOKBINDING, AND THE CARE OF BOOKS A TEXT-BOOK FOR BOOKBINDERS AND LIBRARIANS
by COCKERELL, Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Fair
- Seller
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ELLSWORTH, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Publisher's original green cloth with black lettering, 12mo, pp. 345 + pp. [2] ads. Illustrated with 12 black and white plates, as called for, and with drawings by Noel Rooke. Glossary. An entry in Pitman's Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Books. Just very mild shelf rubbing at spine ends and board tips. Dust jacket Fair-only with chips, short tears, loss of paper at crown of spine and continuing along part of the upper edge of rear panel. Jacket now protected against further wear by a sheet of removable mylar.
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- Bookseller
- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3727
- Title
- BOOKBINDING, AND THE CARE OF BOOKS A TEXT-BOOK FOR BOOKBINDERS AND LIBRARIANS
- Author
- COCKERELL, Douglas
- Illustrator
- ROOKE, Noel
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., [1963]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Spine
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- 12mo
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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