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Public Sculptor: Lorado Taft and the Beautification of Chicago
by GARVEY, Timothy J
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0252015010
- ISBN 13
- 9780252015014
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 222pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/fine. Bit of page edge soiling to otherwise-fine text block. Tight, handsome first edition -- with interesting sculptor autograph angle: Well-known Illinois bronze sculptor Alan St. George (b. 1952) boldly signs and inscribes the front flyleaf to another noted sculptor: "4-11-06 / For my dear old friend, / Lily, from one lover / of beauty to another. / Alan St. George." Lily Tolpo (1917-2016) is a noted sculptor whose husband Carl (1901-76) was a notable Lincoln sculptor. Also laid in is a fine Autograph Note Signed from St. George to Tolpo.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38641
- Title
- Public Sculptor: Lorado Taft and the Beautification of Chicago
- Author
- GARVEY, Timothy J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0252015010
- ISBN 13
- 9780252015014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Chicago; Art;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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