For Art's Sake Tapa dura - 1992

Mcclelland & Stewart, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover, no jacket; light handling wear. Mitchell's sixtyish hero, is a part-time painter who teaches in the faculty of fine arts at Livingstone University, the same Prairie institution where Colin Dobbs taught in Since Daisy Creek. Untenured and needled by an officious dean, Art likens himself to an "academic Eliza trying to make it across the river, jumping from sessional ice cake to sessional ice cake, with Simon Degree in hot pursuit." On the plus side, he enjoys living on his Prairie farm with Professor, his golden retriever, and Florence, his housebroken pig, not to mention his three human housemates: Win, the actor; Darryl, the poet who works in Sears' menswear; and Charlie, the sculptor who, like Art himself, is a widower. Then one day, the officious dean pushes too far and Art resigns. He fully intends to keep his promise to his dear, dead wife by becoming a full-time, freelance artist; instead, he becomes the mastermind behind the… Leer más

McClelland & Stewart, 1992-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! Canadian first edition, first printing. Published by McClelland & Stewart in 1992. Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. The book itself is in Near Fine condition with no scratches. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Toronto : McClelland and Stewart , 1992 . First Edition . NF/NF . 8VO . Gift inscription, light damp marks to top of rear jacket panel (raindrops?), not affecting book and barely visible. Unpriceclipped.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771060505 . Stiff crisp book in bright dust jacket with 3 slight tears. Name to front endpaper. ; 267 pages .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771060505 . Tight unmarked book, about new, in crisp dust jacket. ; 267 pages .

In 1992 an international meeting of insurers announced that up to $4 billion worth of fine art is stolen each year. Clearly, larceny on such a scale must be the work of skilled, professional thieves. For Art's Sake suggests that this was not always the case