The Viking Press, 1972. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 207 pages, with Index, Selected Bibliography. Preface by James Biddle, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Foreword "The Heritage of the Hudson" by the historian and folklorist Carl Carmer. Sixty-six pages of maps and plates, both color and b&w - photographs and art reproductions of Hudson River School and other paintings. Notes to the Plates by Howat and Sandra Feldman. 4to (9-3/4" x 12-1/4"), red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, spine sunned, scant shelf wear, back board bowed, faint foxing to edges. Name of former owner written on first free end paper, interior pages unmarked. Heavy book, may incur shipping surcharge.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-1208
Title: The Hudson River and Its Painters
Author: John K. Howat
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0670385581
ISBN 13: 9780670385584
Publisher: The Viking Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1972
Keywords: HUDSON VALLEY SCHOOL, RIVER JAMES BIDDLE, CARL CARMER, RIVER, NEW YORK STATE, SANDRA FELDMAN, AMERICAN PAINTING, JASPER CROPSEY, FREDERIC CHURCH
Bookseller catalogs: American History; Art;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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....
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...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...