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Australian Art Today
by Smith, Sydney Ure, editor / publisher
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Sydney: Ure Smith Pty. Limited, 1940. Hardcover. The brief preface is unpaginated, numbered leaves continue to the end, each leaf an alkaline insert on glazed stock, of which eleven are in color. Printed rectos only. No Nolan, next to nothing strictly modernist. Hardbound first edition, 9.5x6 inch grey-blue papered boards with white backstrip spine-titled black. Laid in is a neatly cut fragment of a long-gone dust jacket, a color plate. Textblock materials are in excellent shape. Casing is presentable but damaged; an impact to tail of rear cover has dented the lower margin and split the rear joint some three inches, more an aesthetic than structural problem, item remains sound, easy to handle, cleanly and unmarked within. As is, a fair to good copy. FYI, paintings by Van Gogh, Matisse and Gauguin also shown, one each; evidently "Australian art" includes examples washed up on a museum shore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 297096
- Title
- Australian Art Today
- Author
- Smith, Sydney Ure, editor / publisher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ure Smith Pty. Limited
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1930S; Art; Nineteenth century; Australia; Museums, etc;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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