Sacred And Profane Beauty: The Holy In Art
by Gerardus Van Der Leeuw
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963. Hardcover. Good. 1963. First Edition Thus. 357 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Mild cracking to gutters, with exposed binding. Mild thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription and notable scuffing to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild warping to front board. Sticker to rear board.
Synopsis
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963. Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-352) and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1701679482CTS
- Title
- Sacred And Profane Beauty: The Holy In Art
- Author
- Gerardus Van Der Leeuw
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- Date Published
- 1963
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...