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New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good, with toning and very faint wear at the spine tips. Good dust jacket, with approx 2" chip on front left and chips off the spine tips. First edition stated. Hardcover. Unpaginated. A book of quirky, humorous, and bizarre pen & ink faces by William Steig.
Persistent faces by Steig, William - 1945
by Steig, William
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Persistent faces
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[New York]: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Very mild bumping to front board-rear corner, very gentle rubbing to other three corners, light soiling to boards and fore-edges, very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, bright pages in tight binding, little more than quarter inch clipped tear to front DJ-rear corner, quarter inch clipped tear to DJ spine head, less than quarter inch clipped tear to DJ spine foot, half inch closed tear to front DJ-top edge, four tiny tears to front DJ-top edge, half inch tear to rear DJ-top edge, three tiny tears to rear DJ-rear edge, faint soiling to DJ and front free endpaper, else Very Good(+) in Good DJ.. Large duodecimo or small octavo in unpaged, approx. 150-200 pages, b&w illustrations ; 19 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || American wit and humor, Pictorial.
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- Publisher Duell, Sloan & Pearce
- Place of Publication [New York]
- Date Published 1945
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Persistent Faces
by William Steig
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Persistent Faces
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Inc, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Unpaginated. Book of black and white cartoon illustrations. Dust jacket slightly ripped on top edge. Record # 603091
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Persistent Faces.
by STEIG, William
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Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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NY:: Duell, Sloan & Pearce,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Illustrated by the author. First printing. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning), price clipped dust jacket. .
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Persistent Faces
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Collectible - Acceptable. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate of American artist Ben Shahn on front pastedown. (Caricatures, Cartoons, Humor)
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Persistent Faces
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Duell, Sloan, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. William Steig. Closed edge tear along fold of dust jacket. Scarce, especially in dust jacket. Binding is cloth.
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1945. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this collection of fantastically mid-century modern caricatures, from the Barfly to the Wet Blanket, published during Steig's first career as a cartoonish for periodicals. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and adults for his beloved SHREK! and its associated films. 7.5'' x 5''. Original brown cloth boards. Original unclipped ($1.50) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. Unpaginated. Jacket with light edgewear, a couple tiny closed tears; a hint of foxing. Binding with mild bumping to corners and spine ends. Tight.
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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No place listed [New York]: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. William STEIG. First edition. 12mo; [184pp]; brown glazed buckram over board with printed in orange on front cover and spine; cartooning characters printed on recto only; unclipped dust jacket; light shelf wear to head and tail of spine; some paper residue to cover at bottom from damp staining of dj; dj has ½" chip to head of spine and chipping to bottom edge, sunning of spine, light damp staining to bottom edge; very good in very good minus dj. A humorous book of cartoon style faces, much in the style of Picasso.
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