Wild Portraits.
by Hansard, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0207160988
- ISBN 13
- 9780207160981
- Seller
-
Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. HEAVY. 216pp, index, bibliography, exhibitions list, 200 plates. Or cloth in jacket. Jacket spine faded, half-title page and last page of index foxed. A range of the artist's wild portraits covering his wanderings from the Arctic to Australia. As well as works shown in their final painted form, many sheets of preparatory pencil sketches are also included. Over 200 plates of birds and animals of which 180 appear here for the first time.. First Australian Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. Illus. by Harris-Ching, Raymond.. Oblong Folio.
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- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051236
- Title
- Wild Portraits.
- Author
- Hansard, Peter
- Illustrator
- Harris-Ching, Raymond.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good Plus
- Edition
- First Australian Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0207160988
- ISBN 13
- 9780207160981
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- Oblong Folio
- Keywords
- Art Wildlife Animals Painting Raymond Ching Nature Natural History Birds Mammals
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and the Arts; Birds; Natural History & Environment; NATURE / Animals;
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
I carry a general stock of approx 70000 titles of which only a small percentage is online. Viewing at my Ashmore bookrooms is welcome by appointment. While not specializing I have a good selection of art, natural history, military and surfing in stock. I also have many other non-fiction subjects, as well as approx 10000 paperback fiction titles on hand.
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
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