The Painted Word
by WOLFE, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1975. 8vo, pp. 121. Original blue threequarter boards, lettered in gilt on cream spine. Bookseller's label to rear endpaper, pages a little browned, but a near fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped, lightly age-toned dustwrapper. Illustrated. First edition in book form of an essay skewering the pretensions of modern art which first appeared in the April 1975 issue of Harper's magazine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Neil Pearson Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1346
- Title
- The Painted Word
- Author
- WOLFE, Tom
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1975
- Keywords
- Visual Arts
Terms of Sale
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Dustwrapper
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- Spine
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- 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...