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Matisse
by Schneider, Pierre
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
Rizzoli, New York, 1984; First Edition, First Printing; Quarto, 752 pages; deep blue cloth; gilt titles; illustrated. Art historian Pierre Schneider’s monumental work on Henri Matisse, fourteen years in the making. Profusely illustrated with 930 illustrations, 220 in full color, a number reproduced for the first time here. Premier authority on the subject. First American Edition, with text in English translated from the French by Michael Taylor and Bridget Strevens Romer. Not a later reprint. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a couple of minor surface wrinkles at the upper portion of the spine panel. Crisp, bright, glossy, corners sharp, no chips or tears, no price-clipping, no ownership signatures.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6389
- Title
- Matisse
- Author
- Schneider, Pierre
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Place of Publication
- New York,
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Matisse, Art, Painting, Art History, Art Reference, French Painters, Impressionism, France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Architecture;
Terms of Sale
AARDWOLF Fine Books
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About the Seller
AARDWOLF Fine Books
Biblio member since 2015
Van Nuys, California
About AARDWOLF Fine Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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