MEMORIAL TO A MARRIAGE: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery / Commissioned by Henry Adams in Honor of His Wife, Marian Hooper Adams. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Photograph Album by Jerry L. Thompson. Additional photographs by Marian Hooper-Adams
by (Adams, Henry). (Thompson, Jerry L.). Kirstein, Lincoln
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0810936003
- ISBN 13
- 9780810936003
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1989).. (1989).. Very good. - Quarto [12-1/4 inches high by 9 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. There is a light stain to the bottom edge of the front cover. There are a few tiny stains to the front panel of the dust jacket & its top edge is slightly creased. 91 & [4] pages plus colophon. Full-page color illustrations & plates, including a folding plate, and textual illustrations in black & white. There is a small crease to the top corner of the folding plate, else the contents are fine. Very good.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19318
- Title
- MEMORIAL TO A MARRIAGE: An Album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery / Commissioned by Henry Adams in Honor of His Wife, Marian Hooper Adams. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. Photograph Album by Jerry L. Thompson. Additional photographs by Marian Hooper-Adams
- Author
- (Adams, Henry). (Thompson, Jerry L.). Kirstein, Lincoln
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0810936003
- ISBN 13
- 9780810936003
- Publisher
- New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1989).
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1989).
- Keywords
- AMERICANA; HENRY ADAMS; ART; SCULPTURE; MONUMENT; AUGUSTUS ST. GAUDENS; MEMORIAL TO A MARRIAGE; ST.-GAUDENS MEMORIAL; ROCK CREEK PARK CEMETERY; MARIAN HOOPER-ADAMS; PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM; PHOTOGRAPHER; JERRY L. THOMPSON; LINCOLN KIRSTEIN.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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