Portrait of New York
by Beaton, Cecil
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
B T Batsford Ltd London 1948 Originally Published 1938 . Very Good, Many Foxed Pages Demy 8vo, 136pp, b/w Illusts No Jacket, Tanned Spine Hard Cover Beaton's preface tells us that this is 'less a guide-book than a catalogue of impressions, mostly visual, of a city that, with each visit, becomes, for me, very much more beguiling, mysterious and impressive'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004120
- Title
- Portrait of New York
- Author
- Beaton, Cecil
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B T Batsford Ltd London 1948 Originally Published 1938
- Keywords
- Photography - European, Town Planning - American, Cultural & Social Studies - American
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
THE CROSS Art + Books
Biblio member since 2023
Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
About THE CROSS Art + Books
THE CROSS ART + BOOKS
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...