Mona Lisa: The History of the World's Most Famous Painting
by Sassoon, Donald
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 000770562X
- ISBN 13
- 9780007705627
- Seller
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Ted Smart.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Very slightly dished. Seems un-used. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. Very slight colouration to pages and edges throughout. VG* Illustrations: Three blocks of 4 pp. colour & b/w illustrations within text.* Pages: 279 pp. text. 71 pp. advertisements, notes, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- Mona Lisa is a fascinating insight not just into one uniquely famous painting, but inti the way the art world, and our perceptions of artistic genius, are shaped. Just this one of six thousand paintings in the Louvre is exhibited in a special box fitted with bullet proof glass. Why do thousands of visitors throng to see it every day ignoring the masterpieces which surround it? Enigmatic is the word used of the Mona Lisa, why is that?* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with minimal ageing reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4323
- Title
- Mona Lisa: The History of the World's Most Famous Painting
- Author
- Sassoon, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 000770562X
- ISBN 13
- 9780007705627
- Publisher
- Ted Smart
- Place of Publication
- London UK 279
- Date Published
- 2002-01-01
- Size
- 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
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