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Adolf Sehring and Realism. Signed by Sehring.
by HOUSTON, Levin, with Foreword by Zoltan Gluck & Preface by Emery Samet
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
No place: Kembel Publications, (1977). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in 1978 in ink by Adolf Sehring on the title page. Oblong 4to, 144 pp including illustrations throughout in color & black & white. Publisher's gilt-lettered tan cloth in pictorial dust jacket.
Margins of the covers briefly sunned, light tannning & foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good or better in moderately soiled & foxed dust jacket with edge wear (including short tears & small losses), which has a couple of tissue repairs on the verso, otherwise Good.
Sehring, who passed away in 2015, was the only American artist to be commissioned by the Vatican to paint the official Papal portrait of Pope John Paul II.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 769
- Title
- Adolf Sehring and Realism. Signed by Sehring.
- Author
- HOUSTON, Levin, with Foreword by Zoltan Gluck & Preface by Emery Samet
- Illustrator
- Adolf Sehring
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kembel Publications
- Place of Publication
- No place
- Date Published
- 1977
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Adolf Sehring, Punta Gorda, Florida, Art, Realism, Signed, Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Illustrated Books;
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- Foxed
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- Verso
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- Cloth
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