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A HERITAGE OF AMERICAN PAINTINGS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
by Williams, William James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in Fine+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0843710713
- ISBN 13
- 9780843710717
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Maplewood, NJ: Hammond Incorporated. As New in Fine+ dust jacket. 1981. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0843710713 . FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover with unclipped ($30.00) dust jacket. 4to. 256 pp. Bound in publisher's full padded red leather, gilt lettering, borders and decoration on spine, gilt borders and lettering on cover. Gold endpapers. Illustrated with hundreds of reproductions, 64 pages of which are in full color. Profusely illustrated throughout with reproductions of paintings from the National Gallery of Art collection, including 64 pages in full color. This is a new, unopened copy, which shows only the slightest shelf-wear. AS NEW/FINE+. An excellent copy of a book that graphically captures the feeling of touring room to room through Washington's magnificent National Gallery of Art. With the Gallery's American painting collection as his lecture hall, author William James Williams, curator and lecturer, leads the reader through fourteen interconnected 'rooms' to be enjoyed briefly or lingered in for serious study. . Color and B&W photographs. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 256 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3864
- Title
- A HERITAGE OF AMERICAN PAINTINGS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
- Author
- Williams, William James
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New in Fine+ dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0843710713
- ISBN 13
- 9780843710717
- Publisher
- Hammond Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- Maplewood, NJ
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0843710713, Art;, Art History, American Art, American Painting
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Unopened
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