The Lady and the Painter
by Palffy, Eleanor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1951). 3rd impression. Hardcover. NOISBN . [book is nice and clean, with no significant wear; jacket shows wear and various tiny nicks along top and bottom edges, light rubbing overall]. (line drawings) Termed "an extravaganza" by its author, this is a partly-fictional, partly-factual story based on incidents in the lives of Isabella Stewart Gardner and artist John Singer Sargent, "whose intimacy lasted from the day he first painted her portrait in 1888 until she died in 1924." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19274
- Title
- The Lady and the Painter
- Author
- Palffy, Eleanor
- Illustrator
- (dj/decorations) Alanson Hewes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dj
- Edition
- 3rd impression
- Publisher
- Coward-McCann, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1951)
- Keywords
- NOISBN, Artists, Boston, Art History, Biography
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