Cockerell: Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Friend of Ruskin and William Morris and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
by Wilfrid Blunt
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly handsome exemplar of the stated First American Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound in dark burgundy cloth, and with extraordinarily bright and sharp gilt lettering and design to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, price-clipped. A fine range of black-and-white illustrations and photographs on high-gloss plates. xviii [1], 3-385 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Bookseller
- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 349202
- Title
- Cockerell: Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Friend of Ruskin and William Morris and Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Author
- Wilfrid Blunt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Wilfred Blunt|Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell|book publishers|bookselling
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