Telling Line, The: Essays on Fifteen Book Illustrators
by Martin, Douglas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385300484
- ISBN 13
- 9780385300483
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: Delacorte Press, 1989. 1st U.S.A. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques." Record # 30480
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Details
- Bookseller
- Monroe Street Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30480
- Title
- Telling Line, The: Essays on Fifteen Book Illustrators
- Author
- Martin, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st U.S.A
- ISBN 10
- 0385300484
- ISBN 13
- 9780385300483
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Art, Artists, 1st U.S.A, , .
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