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The Artist in His Studio
by Liberman Alexander
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+q/Good+
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good+q/Good+. 72 pages, [171] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 34 cm. Tall quarto. Hardcover. Publisher's original lemon yellow cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: cocked, covers with various types of staining, wear to edges, frazzled to the visible boards in small spots here and there; very slight wave to pages in places; on the other hand-no yellowing to pretty much pristine pages, illustrations brilliant and fresh, binding solid. Dust Jacket Condition: every sort of chipping, creasing and tears to edges, grotty along 1/32 inch of jacket flaps and bottom edge, meanwhile, largely intact, unclipped with proper $17.50 price intact, jacket colors brilliant and fresh. Good+ in a Good+ Jacket of the true first printing; where the true first printing matters-the quality of the plates a cut above every subsequent printing, edition, reprint etc. Introduction by James Thrall Soby.
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Details
- Bookseller
- DuBois Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005313
- Title
- The Artist in His Studio
- Author
- Liberman Alexander
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+q
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
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About the Seller
DuBois Rare Books
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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