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Art Now
by READ, Herbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1938. Second Printing of Second Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. E. McKnight Kauffer. Small 8vo. Pp. 160. Illustrated with 128 black & white halftone photo reproductions on coated paper. Black cloth, titles stamped in red and white on the spine, printed on heavy paper: moderate wear/foxing to edges, offsetting to endpapers, leaves crisp and binding tight. Bookseller tag on front endpaper "F. W. Preece Ltd. Adelaide." In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, price clipped, "Third Impression reissue at a lower price." Light edge-wear, with spine color minimally sunned. From the jacket blurb: "Both from the aesthetic and psychological points of view, this is the best exposition of contemporary art, including Surrealism." In a bold E. McKnight Kauffer dust jacket, a vibrant example of his mid-career style. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6300
- Title
- Art Now
- Author
- READ, Herbert
- Illustrator
- E. McKnight Kauffer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing of Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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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...
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