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Italian Villas and Their Gardens
de WHARTON, Edith
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable
- Librería
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The Century Company, 1904. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Quarto. 52 illustrations, half of them by Parrish, mostly in color. Tissue guards. Topedge gilt. Green decorative cloth gilt. Owner name dated Christmas, 1904 on front pastedown, and a small owner label on front fly, a touch of rubbing at the tips, else a beautiful, fine and fresh copy, and rarely found thus. Wharton's text illustrated with lush Parrish drawings. A superior copy.
Sinopsis
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Dixon Hunt is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) was a renowned American painter and illustrator.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 559478
- Título
- Italian Villas and Their Gardens
- Autor
- WHARTON, Edith
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Century Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1904
- Palabras clave
- Art/Illustration, Gardening, AmerLit20thCent, DecorativeCloth
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Sobre el vendedor
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
Sobre Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
