Wine labels
de Whitworth, Eric Watkinson
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG++/F/VG+
- Librería
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
HARDBACK "COLLECTORS? PIECES SERIES No 8," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression:1st.* Date of Publication: 1966* Publisher: Cassell.* Binding and cover condition: Orange cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo to wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 10/6d. net. Complete but a little aged with minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges. VG+* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with little or no reading wear, no marks to text, very lightly marked to eps. VG++* Illustrations: 2pp.colour & b/w photos & line drawings throughout within text.* Pages: 63 pp.* Description: Number eight in a series of handbooks, this one by E.W.Whitworth, providing a new (1960?s) and lighter approach to collecting. This pocket book gives a concise and readable history of the techniques and origins of silver, glass and enamelled wine labels. There is also a section regarding the occurrence of various alternative names for drinks which may appear on these labels such as Mountain, Bucellas, Hollands etc.etc.. It is still a definitive guide for the browser and collector.* A NEAR FINE copy reduced by slight ageing to VG+*
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- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3654
- Título
- Wine labels
- Autor
- Whitworth, Eric Watkinson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG++/F/VG+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Cassell
- Lugar de publicación
- London Uk 63
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Shelf Wear
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- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Gilt
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