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Raemakers' War Cartoons
by Louis Raemakers
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Century, New York, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. LOUIS RAEMAKERS. Raemakers' War Cartoons, 2 volumes, New York: Century, 1917. Large, heavy folios, No. 395 of an edition of 1050, unpaginated with an introduction and 156 plates, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines and fronts, brown morocco labels on spines, original canvas dust jackets, signed on the limitation page by a Century executive. Raemakers was a Dutch artist and newspaper cartoonist who worked to get his native country to abandon its neutrality and join the war against Germany. He gave up the losing effort and joined the British-American propaganda machine, becoming highly popular in his new countries. The present books were released pretty much simultaneously with America's joining the war. They display one color cartoon per plate, tipped in, facing a page of commentary. Condition of this set: Dust jackets fraying at edges, discolored. A few stains inside but overall very good, images fine. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Military & Warfare; United States; 1900-1920; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54695. .
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- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54695
- Title
- Raemakers' War Cartoons
- Author
- Louis Raemakers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Century
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Military & Warfare; United States; 1900-1920; Art & Design. Louis Raemakers Raemakers' War Cartoons
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
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- First Edition
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- 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,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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