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Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First Edition, First American ed. Hardcover. near fine/very good. NOT an ex library book. Clean pages. Dust jacket has some peeling on spine ends, no chips, price is not clipped.
Museum Piece by James Laver - 1964
by James Laver
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Museum Piece
by James Laver
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Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. First American edition. Jacket is intact aside from minor scuffing and a small signature from the previous owner on the inside cover flap. Boards are solid, the spine is square, and the pages are bright, crisp, and unmarked. Overall, in excellent condition.
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- Jacket Condition Very good
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- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published 1964
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Museum Piece: Or the Education of an Iconographer
by Laver, James
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- Hardcover
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Batavia, Illinois, United States
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Museum Piece: Or the Education of an Iconographer
by Laver, James
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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1964, 1963 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition. 8 vo. 256 pp. Index, b/w plates, tan cloth-backed boards. Small scuff front end paper, very good; dust jacket price clipped, edgewear, very good..
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Museum Piece
by LAVER, James
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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London: Deutsch, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Book bumped at bottom spine end and top edge of front cover, dustwrapper spine faded, dustwrapper lightly rubbed along top and bottom edges, dustwrapper back cover lightly browned. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Museum Piece
by James Laver
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- very good
- Hardcover
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
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Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. 13 photo plates. Subtitle "The Education of an Iconographer". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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Museum Piece
by Laver, James
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- Used - cancelled inscr to fep, wr to d/w edges + short trs o/w VG++/VG 450 gms
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Southport, United Kingdom
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Andre Deutsch 1st '63 . cancelled inscr to fep, wr to d/w edges + short trs o/w VG++/VG 450 gms.
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Museum Piece : The Education of an Icongrapher
by Laver, James
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LEWES, United Kingdom
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£5.00
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Andre Deutsch, 1963,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 256pp, illustrated, owner's name on endpaper, edges browned, text clean and sound, Good condition in frayed dustwrapper .
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Museum Piece
by James Laver
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- as new
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- 1st Am. Ed
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- Hardcover
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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Contents appear as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in Fine Tan cloth covered Boards. DJ displays minimal surface/edge/wear, as shown.KIRKUS REVIEW
A thoroughly civilized autobiography suits the life led by busy James Laver, a London gentleman of many accomplishments and acquaintances. We are treated to the early years at grandmother's house, when Gustave Dore's Don Quixote impressed, then move on to the influence of the mysterious, magnanimous L.D.H., who gave the author 1000 pounds on the condition that he use it to go Oxford. Oxford years, years at war when he first met Paris, sweep on to a twenty-seven year stint at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design. Mr. Laver's duties there were somehow adroitly dovetailed with his activity in theatre-- his Nymph Errant starred Gertie Lawrence and was scored by Cole Porter. His own writings ranged from this novel-play to biographies of Whistler, Wesley, Nostradamus (for which he explored the wonder-worlds… Read More
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