Painted veils. With twelve illustrations in color by Majeska. . . .
by HUNEKER, James [Gibbons]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Tall 8vo. 310 pp. Title in red & black. Colour frontisp., 11 colour plates. Black cloth, elaborately gilt decorated spine, orange & red morocco spine label, w/ d.j. (minor chipping head of spine, dustsoiling), F/VG copy, preserved in open-backed slipcase, printed labels on cover & spine (some edgewear, rubbing), numbered on limitation page. First Majeska edition, No. 55 of 1250 copies, with beautiful illustrations. This novel published originally in 1920 just before the author’s death, surrounds the adventures of the hero who has fallen in love with an opera soprano in New York. This edition contains the beautiful illustrations of Madame Yna Majeska, noted costume designer for the Ziegfeld follies, and Cecil B. DeMille, who also illustrated in Vanity Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47199
- Title
- Painted veils. With twelve illustrations in color by Majeska. . . .
- Author
- HUNEKER, James [Gibbons]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1929.
- Keywords
- theatre, Music, music history, Letters, James Gibbons Huneker, New York Sun, Journalism, newspapers, Critics, Theatre Critics, Theater Critics, Opera, Majeska, Fashion Art, Erotica
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Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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