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Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum. Nearly fine copy. 1997. 1st. softcover. 4to, 288 pp. .

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "In December 1997 the J. Paul Getty Museum will open its new home in the spectacular Getty Center, designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier, and dramatically sited in the Santa Monica Mountains above Los Angeles. This will constitute the third home for the Getty Museum collections, which were first displayed in J. Paul Getty's ranch house in Malibu and later were housed in the splendid reconstruction of an ancient Roman villa that Getty had built on the grounds of his Malibu estate. This book contains a lively text by the Director and Associate Director of the Museum along with archival and recently commissioned photographs to provide a biography of the Museum's benefactor. In addition, the book presents a history of the buildings that have housed his… Read More

Los Angeles (The J. Paul Getty Museum), 1997.. 288pp. Prof. illus. in color. Lrg. 4to. Wraps. Second printing.

Los Angeles, California: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. Second Impression. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the first author, being warmly inscribed at the first free endpaper to and from the personal library of the Lake Forest, Illinois-based former architect and Lake Forest College-based art historian and critic, Professor Franz Schulz, dated June 24, 2000. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 200 full-color illustrations, another 50 in duotone.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets. Read More

Los Angeles: The J Paul Getty Museum, 1997. Second impression (softcover). 4to (30cm by 23cm), 288pp. Illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. ISBN 0892364769