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Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1969. 223pp, index, appendices, 32 bw plates, line drawings. Or cream cloth, lacking jacket. Minor wrinkle to cloth on rear.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.
American Figureheads and Their Carvers by Pinckney, Pauline A - 1940
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American Figureheads and Their Carvers
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Full cloth. Quarto. 223 pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Black & White Photographs, Drawings. Chronological record of American ship carving, an art which as one of the first expressions of the plastic arts in this country represents an important epoch in American sculpture. See ALBION p. 57. This copy from the collection of noted naval architect Thomas Gillmer, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Bound in coarse tan cloth over boards with spine titled in gilt on a blue title block, blue topstain. Some mild browning to spine and boards, a few extremity rubs. Clean and sturdy copy with nice association. . No dust jacket.
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- Date Published 1940
- Keywords Naval Architecture, Carving, Figure Heads, Shipyards, Shipbuilding, Wooden Ships, Sailing Ships, Thomas Charles Gillmer, Bookplates
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American Figureheads and Their Carvers.
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AMERICAN FIGUREHEADS And Their Carvers
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1940. 223pp, 11 figures, 32 plates with 90 b/w illustrations. 1st edition. hardback. Fine. 4to.
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AMERICAN FIGUREHEADS AND THEIR CARVERS
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company· Inc, 1940. 223pp, 32 plates, 11 figures. ''In this book, the first publication on the subject, the author has attempted a chronological record of American ship carving.This art, so widespread in america where shipbuilding was being carried on, was one of the first expressions of the plastic arts in this country and therefore represents an important epoch in American sculpture.''. 1st edition. tan buckram, gilt. Fine. 4to.
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PINCKNEY, Pauline A. AMERICAN FIGUREHEADS AND THEIR CARVERS. New York: W.W. Norton, (1940.) 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 223 pages, 32 plates First edition. Comprehensive examination of the tradition of carving ships' figureheads in America. Illustrated with text drawings and photographic plates. Dust jacke chipped, else very good.
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New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. Stated first edition. Minor foxing to edges/endpages. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is toned/creased to spine, lightly worn to points/edges. ; 32 Plates & 11 Figures; quarto; 223pp incl. Index pages .
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New York: W. W. Norton & Co., c1949. 1st edition . Hardcover. Very good condition chipped d.j./fair. 223p., illus.
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American Figureheads and Their Carvers
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W.W. Norton. Used - Good. 1940. Cloth, dj. 4to. 223 pp. 32 plates. Some shelf wear, creasing, and heavy chipping & tearing to dust jacket otherwise protected by acetate cover. Price clipped. Contents very sound. Altogether a copy in Good condition. (Subject: Americana & Regional History.)
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.. Very Good. (1940). Hardcover. First edition. From the marine collection of Charles E. Pont, with his book-label. Loosely laid-in is a Typed letter signed from the author to pon with interesting contents about the preparation of this book. 223 pages, tan boards with gilt and blue stamping to the spine. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. .
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