That Wilder Image; The Painting of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer
by Flexner, James Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1962, 1st edition. (hardcover) xxii, 407pp. Near fine in fair dust jacket. 4to. Grey cloth boards, title compartment in dark-green to spine with lettering in gold, lettering in same dark-green beneath compartment, publisher's device blindstamped to top board. Dust jacket worn, chipping at extremities, rubbed, closed tear at bottom corner of front repaired on verso with clear tape, price clipped. The volume itself is near fine, with only light shelfwear. Tight, bright, and clean. Illustrated with B&W photographs of artwork..
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- Bookseller
- Spafford Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120540
- Title
- That Wilder Image; The Painting of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer
- Author
- Flexner, James Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Keywords
- American Art, Art, Art - American
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Architecture;
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Spafford Books
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About the Seller
Spafford Books
Biblio member since 2009
Regina, Saskatchewan
About Spafford Books
50 + years buying and selling. Large stock dealing with western Canada, fur trade, Indigenous Peoples, general antiquarian. Open by appointment or chance! Call 1-306-525-4910.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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