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An Artist and The Pope
by Pepper, Curtis Bill
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Madison Square Press/Grosset & Dunlap Pub, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Giacomo Manzu. Madison Square Press/Grosset & Dunlap Pub, 1968. Hardcover Book in Good Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket with mylar cover. Based on the Personal Recollections of Giacomo Manzu. A moving story of two remarkable people-the communist artist who had lost his faith and his good friend, Pope John XIII. The book is missing the endpaper, otherwise in Very Good Condition. Beautifully illustrated by Giacomo Manzu, one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century, with four pages of full color illustrations that include both painting and sculpture of Pope John and thirty-two pages of monochrome photographs. Light tan half cloth, gilt titled with taupe cloth over boards, very clean and unmarked, tight and solid binding. Front free endpaper is missing. Book begins with the four full color illustrations of Pope John. The interior is very clean, no markings. The only defect is the missing ffep. Clean jacket has small chipping of spine head, otherwise slight edgewear. 249 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1968, Madison Square Press/Grosset & Dunlap Pub, New York, New York U.S.A.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014821
- Title
- An Artist and The Pope
- Author
- Pepper, Curtis Bill
- Illustrator
- Giacomo Manzu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Madison Square Press/Grosset & Dunlap Pub
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POPE JOHN XXIII; ITALY; SCULPTURE;
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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