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Painter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English Painting
by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1939. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly as "Hawley, with C.B.T.'s warm regards, December '40," and signed with a flourish indeed. Fine and probing account by the poet and painter himself, also a critic of such and historian. Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1939, being a Second Printing. Bound handsomely in blue cloth, gilt ruling to front and rear covers, spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Bound in a small quarto format. Plentiful black-and-white plates. Fine collection of lectures and insights drawn from the Norton Lectures for 1937/8. xiv [3], 4-195 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Title
- Painter and Poet: Studies in the Literary Relations of English Painting
- Author
- Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
- Illustrator
- Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chauncey Bernard Tinker signed|poetry poets poems English painting
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