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Art of Whistler
by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins; Pennell, Joseph
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Modern Library, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5. 201 pages; blue flexible leatherette with gilt title and publisher's device, light shelf wear, especially at corners, spine rubbed and spine tail lightly fraying, small crack to tail of front internal hinge, pages toned from age, first Modern Library edition stated, Bernhard end papers, Toledano binding style 4 (1925-1929); featuring 32 reproductions of the artist's works in the "aquatone process.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crooked House Books & Paper
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MH00033
- Title
- Art of Whistler
- Author
- Pennell, Elizabeth Robins; Pennell, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 16mo - over 5
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VINTAGE BOOK ART CRITICISM HISTORY BIOGRAPHY
Terms of Sale
Crooked House Books & Paper
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About the Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper
Biblio member since 2005
Portland, Oregon
About Crooked House Books & Paper
Welcome to the Crooked House, a one-of-a-kind bookstore in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the beautiful and unusual: books by, for and about women, cookery, domestic science, decorative publishers bindings, weird how-to books and ephemera, 1920s-30s women's magazines, Modern Library, and more.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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