Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated
by Davenport-Hines, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 086547544X
- ISBN 13
- 9780865475441
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1999. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket has minor edge wear. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the gothic imagination from its modern origins in the seventeenth century to the present day. Gothic is about exaggeration; about stepping beyond limits and securities into the immoderate. Gothic is a book about painters, gardeners, architects, poets, novelists, photographers, film-makers, musicians and clothes designers." Contents include: Prologue / The Spectre Still Will Haunt Us / Stark Mad With Gardens / The Strength of Backward-Looking Thoughts / They Are Come to Tear Me to Pieces / The Dead Have Exhausted Their Power of Deceiving / A Race of Devils / Wild Passion for Wounding / This Man Belongs to Me I Want Him / Family Evil / We'd Rather Have the Iceberg than the Ship / Wild Mood Swings / Sources / index. Check out the scans... First North Point Press . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002717
- Title
- Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated
- Author
- Davenport-Hines, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Edition
- First North Point Press
- ISBN 10
- 086547544X
- ISBN 13
- 9780865475441
- Publisher
- North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- ....Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket has minor edge wear. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the g
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- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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