Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated
de Davenport-Hines, Richard
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 086547544X
- ISBN 13
- 9780865475441
- Librería
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1999. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket has minor edge wear. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the gothic imagination from its modern origins in the seventeenth century to the present day. Gothic is about exaggeration; about stepping beyond limits and securities into the immoderate. Gothic is a book about painters, gardeners, architects, poets, novelists, photographers, film-makers, musicians and clothes designers." Contents include: Prologue / The Spectre Still Will Haunt Us / Stark Mad With Gardens / The Strength of Backward-Looking Thoughts / They Are Come to Tear Me to Pieces / The Dead Have Exhausted Their Power of Deceiving / A Race of Devils / Wild Passion for Wounding / This Man Belongs to Me I Want Him / Family Evil / We'd Rather Have the Iceberg than the Ship / Wild Mood Swings / Sources / index. Check out the scans... First North Point Press . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 002717
- Título
- Gothic : Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin --illustrated
- Autor
- Davenport-Hines, Richard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good Plus
- Edición
- First North Point Press
- ISBN 10
- 086547544X
- ISBN 13
- 9780865475441
- Editorial
- North Point Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- ....Red cloth with gilt on spine, tight clean and square, headband, 438 pages, illustrated through-out in b & w, with 8 pages of colour plates, dust jacket has minor edge wear. "Richard Davenport-Hines traces the potent creative impulse of the g
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Horror; Movies; Reference; Lifestyle; Movies/TV;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
