Barre: Barre Publications, 1970. First edition, first printing. With illustrations in colour and black and white throughout by Westman. 4to, publisher’s original red boards, lettered in gilt, and in the original colour illustrated dust jacket. 36 pp. A very pleasing, bright and clean copy with a minor nick to the bottom of the spine panel cloth. FIRST EDITION. DELIGHTFUL ARTISTIC RENDERINGS OF CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS. “Here is the whole gamut of the Cambridge experience: its contemporary crowds, and Harvard’s inner sanctum, its restless young and the still reflections in its river, the brilliant plate glass and the weathered shingles. The accompanying text is taken from Barbara’s own letters and notes, written while she observed and painted.” - Publisher

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Bookseller: Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 23135
Title: THE BEARD AND THE BRAID. Drawings of Cambridge
Author: [Westman Illus.] Westman Barbara
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Barre Publications
Place of Publication: Barre
Date Published: 1970

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