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Saint-Gaudens And The Gilded Era
by THARP, LOUISE HALL
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA and Toronto, Canada: Little Brown and Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover Out-of-Print Book in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket in Mylar jacket cover. The life and work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, master sculptor--the mounted figure of General Sherman on the corner of 5th and 59th St in New York and the great bronze panel of marching men opposite the statehouse in Boston are examples of his work. Fifty-five b/w illustrations throughout. Very clean, unmarked, tight and solid book in tan full cloth with black panel on backstrap, gilt titled and gilt decorations. Square with sharp corners. Lower corner of text block slightly dusky and prev owner name on ffep, otherwise Fine. Jacket is clean, upper edge chipped with a piece 3/4x1/2: missing. Now has protective mylar cover. Unclipped jacket with illustrations of examples of Saint-Gaudens' work, on front and back. 419 pages including Chapter Notes and Index. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 1969, Little Brown and Co, Boston, MA and Toronto, Canada.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014495
- Title
- Saint-Gaudens And The Gilded Era
- Author
- THARP, LOUISE HALL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA and Toronto, Canada
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ARTISTS; SCULPTURE; EMERSON, EUGENIE HOMER; PARIS, FRANCE; NEW YORK, YORK; BOSTON, MA; ROME, ITALY; WHITE, STANDORD; WASHINGTON D. C.; SAINT-GAUDENS;
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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
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- Fair
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