Some Old Portraits: A Book about Art and Human Beings
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Coral cloth binding rubbed at extremities & slightly cocked; spine ends & corners frayed; boards soiled & scuffed; front hinge loose & one point in textblock cracked; ink stain on back board & bottom leaf edges; leaf edges, paste-downs & endpapers foxed/smudged, else a good copy. No dj. ; Handsome b&w, color portrait ils.; Small 4to; 249 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48202
- Title
- Some Old Portraits: A Book about Art and Human Beings
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- 20th Century American Literature, Indiana Authors, William Dobson, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Lucius Cary, Sir Peter Lely, Will Ashburnham, Nell Gwyn
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
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