The Energies of Art: : Studies of Authors Classic and Modern
by Barzun, Jacques
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ Fair: corner wear, chipping, small closed tears, age toning/rubbing, clipped.
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./DJ Fair: corner wear, chipping, small closed tears, age toning/rubbing, clipped.. 8vo 355pp. from front flap: "In these fourteen essays covering a wide range of subjects, the author asks, "What is Modernism?" Who are we in the stream of time and Western culture. The answer, which Mr. Barzun has been developing through a number of well-known volumes of cultural history, is given here in concentrated form." #02388.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2323
- Title
- The Energies of Art
- Author
- Barzun, Jacques
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and offset to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ Fair: corner wear, chipping, small closed tears, age toning/rubbing, clipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- literary criticism, nonfiction, first edition, Modernism
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Matthew's Books LLC
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