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The History of American Sculpture (Association Copy)
by Taft, Lorado
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1924. Revised Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged edition. Signed and inscribed by Taft to his student, Ila McAfee; "To Ila with all good wishes and many hopes/Your friend, Lorado Taft/Christmas 1926." Red cloth lettered in gilt along the spine. Illustration stamped in blind to the front board. Black and white horse bookplate of Taos artist Ila McAfee (Turner) to the half-title page. After college McAfee studied with Taft in Chicago, before moving to Taos in 1928. McAfee has pasted in five small photos of sculptures to pages 15, 372, 469, 537 and a photo of Taft to the Editor's Note page. The dust jacket has a chip to the top of the spine, and shallow chipping to the heel. Publisher's price of $6.50 on the front flap. 12 plates with tissue guards present, including the frontispiece and 116 text illustrations. Bibliography, index.; 604 pages; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24467
- Title
- The History of American Sculpture (Association Copy)
- Author
- Taft, Lorado
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Revised Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1924
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Inscribed
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Bookplate
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
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