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Woodcuts 1957 By Antonio Frasconi
by Antonio Frasconi
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Spiral Press, 1957. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Limited Edition, One of 395 copies, This Chap Book, thirty-fourth in the Typophile series has been designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press New york. with comments by artist Antonio Frasconi, printed from the original woodblock on Curtis rag paper and Emerson typeface. un paginated, dozens of fantastic and dramatic black and white woodblock prints, bold prints with double ages and top edge uncut, quarter olive cloth over black paper boards with bold orange and black woodblock prints on both boards, very crisp spine with bright black titles to cloth, No previous owner book plate or writing, Book is Fine, original glassine shipping jacket has tears but included. A scare, most presentable beautiful book. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001888
- Title
- Woodcuts 1957 By Antonio Frasconi
- Author
- Antonio Frasconi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Spiral Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Woodcuts, Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Illustrations
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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