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M
by Robb, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0747545995
- ISBN 13
- 9780747545996
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st. Full Number Line.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Bloomsbury.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrative glossy wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £25.00. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Scarlet end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. Seems un-read. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 496 pp. text. lxxii pp. Appendices & index at rear.* Description: A revealing biography which treats a man?s creative life and art alongside the historical and political scene that created and formed his output. Above all, Robb makes Caravaggio?s paintings live on the page, vital luscious and compelling in their drama. As a book about art and life and how they connect, there has never been anything quite like it.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2036
- Title
- M
- Author
- Robb, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0747545995
- ISBN 13
- 9780747545996
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 563
- This edition first published
- January 17, 2000
- Size
- 23.4 x 16.4 x 5.6 cm
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