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The Artist And The Writer In France: Essays In Honour Of Jean Seznec
by Haskell, Francis; Levi, Anthony & Shackleton, Robert [editors]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0198171870
- ISBN 13
- 9780198171874
- Seller
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About This Item
London:: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket; A tight clean copy in black buckram . boards with very slight hint of rubbing to heel, and a modest fingernail . scratch top page edges. Gilt spine lettering. No dust jacket, (as . issued? ) .. 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0198171870. 184 p.; A collection of 14 essays, including works by: Anthony Blunt; Francis Watson; David Wakefield; David Kelley; Samuel Taylor; Jon Whiteley; Robert Herbert; Jerrold Lanes; Pierre Georgel; Alison Fairlie, Theodore Reef; Mario Praz; Lloyd Austin; Annie Barnes; and "A Personal Postscript" by Jean Adhemar. B&W photo of Jean Seznec on Frontispiece + 73 B&W plates. Index of Names & Places.. Catalogs: Art History. Keywords: French Literature.
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- Caterwaul Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11886
- Title
- The Artist And The Writer In France: Essays In Honour Of Jean Seznec
- Author
- Haskell, Francis; Levi, Anthony & Shackleton, Robert [editors]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0198171870
- ISBN 13
- 9780198171874
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART History;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Rubbing
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
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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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- Tight
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