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Passionate Spirits
by Sisler, Rebecca [Signed by almost 100 members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, dated 1980]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 077201308X
- ISBN 13
- 9780772013088
- Seller
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto/Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 296 pp. Square octavo, hardcover. Bound in dark green faux leather, silver letters impressed on the spine, RCA logo blind-stamped on the front board, trimmed edges. Pictorial endpapers showing a photograph of the earliest members of RCA. Almost 100 signatures of RCA members on the front free endpaper verso, half-title page, and verso, scarce. Numerous colourful and B&W illustrations. Pages clean and unmarked, tight binding. Fine condition. The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) is one of Canada's oldest artist-run organizations founded in 1880. This copy includes signatures of about 100 artists signed the book "In memory of the Great Occasion in your home at the 106th annual RCA Meeting 1986." Rare, attractive, and scarce copy. 1980
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144295
- Title
- Passionate Spirits
- Author
- Sisler, Rebecca [Signed by almost 100 members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, dated 1980]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 077201308X
- ISBN 13
- 9780772013088
- Publisher
- Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto/Vancouver
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Artist|painter|photographer|film maker|architect|sculptor|ceramist|Signed|First edition
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