Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d`Orphée
by Apollinaire, Guillaume; Shakely, Lauren
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977 Hardcover, Folio, in oatmeal cloth boards with blue slipcase with owl print to front. Stunning reprint of the celebrated 1911 edition of poems illustrated by woodcuts, which inspired composers such as Poulenc to set them to music. Raoul Dufy (1877 - 1953) was a French "Fauvist" painter as well as a printmaker. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) was a French poet and art critic, who coined the terms "cubism" and "surrealism". Condition: Fine in Near Fine slipcase which has marks to label on its spine.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Raoul Dufy.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7803
- Title
- Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d`Orphée
- Author
- Apollinaire, Guillaume; Shakely, Lauren
- Illustrator
- Raoul Dufy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Publisher
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...