The Woodcut Of To-day At Home and Abroad
by Malcolm C. Salaman (commentary); Geoffrey Holme (ed.)
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Studio, 1927. Softcover. Good. Quarto in boldly illustrated stiff wrappers (also published in hardcover). iv (adverts), vtt +182 pp. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts , some in two-color, and featuring 8 tipped on full color plates. Wrappers are badly chipped and half lacking at the spine, shallow edge chipping top edges of both covers. There is an acetate dust wrapper, also with chipping and splitting, which may or may not have originally been issued with the book. Survey of woodcut illustration of the 1920s from around the world. The illsutrations are, as one would expect, very striking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E20615
- Title
- The Woodcut Of To-day At Home and Abroad
- Author
- Malcolm C. Salaman (commentary); Geoffrey Holme (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Studio
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- art, woodblock. woodcut, graphic design, illustrations,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...