Some Old Portraits: A Book About Art and Human Beings
by TARKINGTON, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1939. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth over beveled boards, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 249pp. Color plates. Near fine/very good. Jacket heavily edge chipped and edgeworn, but complete nonetheless; large armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Not the signed limited edition, but the scarce first trade edition. Large bold inscription in blue fountain pen by the author on the front flyleaf: "For / The Brooks Sisters / Terrence and John Jameson / and most gladly inscribed / by / Booth Tarkington / Christmastime, 1945.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18843
- Title
- Some Old Portraits: A Book About Art and Human Beings
- Author
- TARKINGTON, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...