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Buttons : the collector's guide to selecting, restoring, and enjoying new and vintage buttons / Nancy Fink and Maryalice Ditzler.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fink, Nancy.
- Ditzler, Maryalice, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buttons.
- Buttons--Collectors and collecting.
- buttons (fasteners).
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 80 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Distribution:
- Philadelphia, PA : Imprint of Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : [Published by] Courage Books, 1993.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: An Historical Overview
- Chapter 2: Fabric and Cloth Buttons
- Chapter 3: Metal Buttons
- Chapter 4: Glass Buttons
- Chapter 5: Ceramic Buttons
- Chapter 6: Enamel Buttons
- Chapter 7: Natural Materials
- Chapter 8: Plastic Buttons
- Chapter 9: Uniform Buttons
- Chapter 10: Other Button Collectibles.
- Notes:
- "A Quintet book"--Title page verso.
- "This book was designed and produced by Quintet Publishing Limited, 6 Blundell Street, London N7 9BH"--Title page verso.
- "Creative Director: Richard Dewing. Project Editor: Stefanie Foster. Designer: Nicky Chapman. Editor: Maggi McCormick. Photographer: Harry Rinker Jnr."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 79) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.
- Running Press copies are "1" printing.
- ISBN:
- 1561382159
- 9781561382156
- OCLC:
- 30085467
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