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Some old portraits: a book about art and human beings
por TARKINGTON, BOOTH
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- first
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Sobre este item
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939. First edition limited to 247 copies signed by Tarkington, 4to, [2], xx, 249; vignette title-page printed in black and yellow, 22 plates (14 in color); original tan linen over beveled boards, stamped and lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, pictorial paper onlay mounted to front cover, t.e.g.; lacking publisher's glassine jacket and slipcover; very good or better. Tarkington muses on paintings of English notables from the 16th to the 18th centuries. This copy with a presentation inscription from Tarkington's personal assistant, collaborator (in the dramatization of Alice Adams), and the primary object of his "Acknowledgment," Elizabeth Stanley Trotter: "For 'Gene Dixon from the grateful cousin, Betty Trotter."
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- Livreiro
- Rulon-Miller Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 29066
- Título
- Some old portraits: a book about art and human beings
- Autor
- TARKINGTON, BOOTH
- Estado do livro
- Usado
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Doubleday, Doran
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1939
- Palavras-chave
- Painting , Portraiture , Portraits , English
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Rulon-Miller Books
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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- Gilt
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