Narrative Art
by Hess, Thomas; Ashbery, John, eds
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket
- Seller
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West Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Macmillan Company, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 166 pp. Tightly bound. Just the very tips of the top corners with light ding. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. Jacket not price clipped. Some fading to spine of dust jacket. The front dust jacket is a painting by Saul Steinberg. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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- Bookseller
- Book Bear (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028976
- Title
- Narrative Art
- Author
- Hess, Thomas; Ashbery, John, eds
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Keywords
- Art Saul Steinberg
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...