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DESIGN FOR DEATH.

DESIGN FOR DEATH.

DESIGN FOR DEATH.

DESIGN FOR DEATH.

by JONES, Barbara (Barbara Mildred), 1912-1978 :

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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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Ash Rare Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
DESIGN FOR DEATH.
Author
JONES, Barbara (Barbara Mildred), 1912-1978 :
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
London : André Deutsch, (1967).
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Applied Art, Popular Art, Vernacular Art, Funeral Art

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