Duveen
by Behrman, S.N. Illustrated By Saul Steiberg
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
€15.60€7.80
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Random,NY/ Random House, Canada, 1952. First Canadian Printing. The author provides a list of people who each shared with him their recollections of Joseph Duveen....the most spectacular art dealer of all time and later became Lord Duveen of Millbank. The contents offer six insightful chapters - (1) Itinerary - (2) A Beginning in Delft - (3) A Brisk Market in Immortality - (4) B.B. - (5) The Blue Boy and Two Lavinias - (6) The Silent Man. Full-page line drawings add much to the text. Blue cloth boards. Mild corner bruising. Name sticker to ffep. A most serviceable book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B769
- Title
- Duveen
- Author
- Behrman, S.N. Illustrated By Saul Steiberg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random,NY/ Random House, Canada
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Joseph Duveen Art Dealer Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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