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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Avenel Books, New York. Hardcover. c.1952/ 1962. Second Printing by Line Number (B). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good: light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to upper and lower tips and board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; bumping to head and tail; light rubbing and superficial scratches to panels. Red leatherette grained boards with gray cloth overlay on the spine; black lettering on the spine. 128 pp 8vo. Here is all the beginner needs to know to know about restoring and decorating old chairs or finishing new ones in antique styles. Here are step-by-step directions, 16 detailed patterns, 35 photographs, and 60 separate sketches which gave all essential know-how for Early and Late Sheraton Fancy Chairs; Country -Type Windsors including Landscape-Medallion and Pennsylvania styles; Hitchcocks; Early and Late Boston Rockers; Nineteenth-Century Fiddle-Backs, Thumb-Backs, Arrow Backs, and Ladder-Backs; also detailed directions for bowl-of-fruit, moss-rose, classic-leaf, camellia, and many other designs. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 013748
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. 4to. Dw has light wear to extemities. Slight mark to lower front leading edge. Book. Seller Inventory # 5003774
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Contains step-by-step directions for restoring and decorating Early and Late Sheraton Fancy Chairs; Country-Type Windsors, including Landscape-Medallion and Pennsylvania styles; Hitchcocks; Early and Late Boston Rockers; 19th-century Fiddle-backs, Thumb-backs, Arrow-backs, and Ladder-backs; as well as detailed directions for bowl-of-fruit, moss-rose, classic-leaf, and camellia designs. Red pebbled boards with gray spine and black titles. Copyright date 1952; no stated publishing history but shows letter string cdefgh so presumed first edition, second printing thus. This is a used book. Pages are clean and bright with no markings, notes, or highlighting. Page edges show light foxing. DJ shows minimal shelf wear with no rubbing or soiling and is not price clipped. No owner's marks or bookplates, not ex-library. Binding is tight and square with no fading on boards. Corners not bumped. An excellent reading copy. Note that oversized or heavier books may require additional postage. Seller Inventory # M0167