DESIGN FOR DEATH.
by JONES, Barbara (Barbara Mildred), 1912-1978 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : André Deutsch, (1967). First edition. An extraordinary study - part grim, part comic - of the "beautiful, vulgar, frightening and propitiatory things that people make when confronted by that shocking and unwelcome reminder, the death of another". With chapters on the corpse; the shroud; the coffin; the hearse; the floral tributes; printing and the word; the procession; the cemetery and the crematorium; the tomb; relics and mementoes, etc. Crown 4to (26cm). 304pp. Illustrations throughout, including photographs and many Jones drawings. Original purple boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge purple; two corners a little bumped, but otherwise a very good copy in the striking Barbara Jones dust-jacket - the jacket also very good. Bloomfield A7.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44310
- Title
- DESIGN FOR DEATH.
- Author
- JONES, Barbara (Barbara Mildred), 1912-1978 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : André Deutsch, (1967).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Applied Art, Popular Art, Vernacular Art, Funeral Art
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About the Seller
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