A Collector's Guide to Fans
Language: English
Published by Wellfleet Press, Secaucus, NJ, 1990
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Bygone Books, Bluffton, SC, U.S.A.Bygone Books
AbeBooks seller since September 21, 2025
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 15.00
Quantity: 1 available
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1st edition [NAP], quarto, pale blue cloth, 96 pages, color illustrations throughout, bibliography. VERY GOOD book / VERY GOOD- jacket: book has light sunning to the top and bottom edges of boards, a small faint stain to spine tail, internally clean and tight; jacket has a 2" closed tear at front fold, price-clipped. "Traces the history of the fan, concentrating on the peak periods of fan-making- the 17th- early 20th centuries. Painted, printed, European, Oriental, ethnic, novelty and feather fans are all included. Over 200 fans are photographed, illustrating the diversity and detail of these most feminine and artistic of accessories.".
Seller Inventory # 17096
- Title
- A Collector's Guide to Fans
- Author
- Mayor, Susan
- Publisher
- Wellfleet Press, Secaucus, NJ
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- VG
- Dust jacket
- VG-
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1555215467
- ISBN 13
- 9781555215460
- Edition
- First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Costume / Fashion
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Bygone Books
Bluffton, SC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 21, 2025
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Bygone Books is a small closed shop of fine used and collectible books and paper ephemera; with specialties in 18th & 19th century literature, Literary history & criticism; Jane Austen; Children's Literature; Great Britain; Domestic Arts [Cookery, Gardening, Etiquette, Manners & Mores, etc]; and Postcards and Sheet Music.
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