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Painting a Portrait
by de Laszlo, Philip; recorded by A. L. Baldry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: The Studio Publications. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Boards worn with some marks and stains. Heavy foxing to top page edges. Some tears and chips to margins of dust-jacket. Some adhesive stains to edges of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1941 third impression, of a title first published in 1934. 80 pages. Tipped in colour frontispiece and 33 tipped in plates, some colour. Red papred boards with black cloth spine. Illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 250 x 185mm. "The author, Philip de Laszlo, painted more than two thousand portraits. His sitters included Royal Personages,Popes and Presidents and the great of Europe and America." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23628
- Title
- Painting a Portrait
- Author
- de Laszlo, Philip; recorded by A. L. Baldry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Studio Publications
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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