TWENTY-FOUR PORTRAITS.
by ROTHENSTEIN, WILLIAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Moderate Edge Wear and Soiling/Chipped Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920. Green cloth back strip. Paper spine and front cover labels. Top edge gilt Top and bottom of spine sunned. In chipped, darkened dust jacket. Limited to 200 copies, 1200 for sale in England, 800 in the United States. To the reproductions of Rothenstein's sketches of notable men of the period has been added a page of text about each one written by his friends, the "wise and witty writers of the appreciatory notes." including Max Beerbohm, Arnold Bennett, Eric Gill, H.G. Wells, Sir Edward Elgar, and 19 others. . Limited Edition. Green Cloth-covered Boards.. Moderate Edge Wear and Soiling/Chipped Dust Jacket. Tall Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000163
- Title
- TWENTY-FOUR PORTRAITS.
- Author
- ROTHENSTEIN, WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Edge Wear and Soiling
- Jacket Condition
- Chipped Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- Tall Octavo
- Keywords
- Art, Portraits, Limited Edition.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...