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The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America
by Walton Rawls
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0896590704
- ISBN 13
- 9780896590700
- Seller
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
Item Price
£119.06£71.44
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About This Item
New York: Abbeville Press, 1979. Hardcover in slipcase. Limited First Edition, signed and numbered (1758/3000) by author on a plate pasted to FFEP. Heavy black and white buckram cloth over boards with illustrated oval paste-on encircled in gilt to front and gilt lettering to spine in a heavy maroon slipcase with gilt lettering and illustration. Book is Fine, nearly As New. Unmarked. Binding and hinges perfect. Slipcase is Near Fine with shelf and handling wear. No markings. Not from a library. 487 pages printed on heavy high-quality paper. Lavishly illustrated. 15.75 x 12.5 x 2.5 inches. 13.75 pounds. Heavy item: Large extra charges for expedited or international shipping.
A massive and beautifully illustrated book that reproduces the largest number of Currier & Ives ever in one volume, including several never before published. 400 illustrations of which 300 are in full color. Each print is captioned with its original title, date of publication and artist when known. All the illustrations, except for one, come from the Harry T. Peters collection, the world's largest and finest assemblage of Currier & Ives lithographs.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000004120
- Title
- The Great Book of Currier & Ives' America
- Author
- Walton Rawls
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0896590704
- ISBN 13
- 9780896590700
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 487
- Size
- Elephant Folio
- Keywords
- art, painting, Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt Ives, United States, illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art, Architecture, and Photography; Illustrated Books;
Terms of Sale
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Books of the World
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About Books of the World
Finding new homes for the library I collected over five decades of travel around the world.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Spine
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- 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...
- Fine
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- New
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