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My Adventures as an Illustrator
by Norman Rockwell
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/near fine
- Seller
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Sisters, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960. First Edition (NAP). Hardcover. Very good/near fine. 8vo., pp. 436 + pp. 11 unpaginated portfolio of illustrations. Signed by the author on a blank front endpaper; "Sincerely, Norman Rockwell", -- Dust jacket has moderate wear around the outer edges. Not price clipped. Blue circular stickers on front and back of dust jacket have been removed. Cloth covers bright and clean, labels on front cover bright and clean. Binding straight and tight. -- A nice clean copy of the first edition of a major American illustrator. -- Overall Condition. "Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades".-wikipedia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lonesome Water Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10723
- Title
- My Adventures as an Illustrator
- Author
- Norman Rockwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition (NAP)
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Vintage Books, Nonfiction, Art, Biography, illustrators, Illustrated Books, Norman Rockwell, Americana,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
Lonesome Water Books
We accept: Most Credit Cards, Paypal. Payment in U.S. Currency Only. If you would like to order direct call 541-719-8216. 11am-5pm Pacific Time. Returnable for any reason within 14 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Lonesome Water Books
Biblio member since 2003
Sisters, Oregon
About Lonesome Water Books
We are a brick and mortar store located in Beautiful Sisters, Oregon. We have a stock of approximately 10,000 books, 80 percent of which are hardbound. We also carry old prints (decorative and original) and maps.
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