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Reading Pictures : A History of Love and Hate
de Manguel, Alberto
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747552959
- ISBN 13
- 9780747552956
- Librería
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 338pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Slightly cocked. Pictorial endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some light chipping to edges, price unclipped. A heavy volume which may require an additional charge for overseas delivery. 8vo. Taking a handful of extraordinary images - photographed, painted, built, sculpted - the author explores, with delight and erudition, how each one attempts to tell a story that we, the viewer, must decipher or invent.
Sinopsis
Alberto Manguel is the acclaimed author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading , which was an international bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, a Times Literary Supplement International Book of the Year, and Winner of France's Prix Medicis. He is a widely sought-after speaker, and will lecture at museums worldwide, including the Louvre, ont he publication of Reading Pictures . He was born in Buenos Aires and lives in France. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Reading Pictures : A History of Love and Hate
- Autor
- Manguel, Alberto
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0747552959
- ISBN 13
- 9780747552956
- Editorial
- Bloomsbury
- Lugar de publicación
- London, UK
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Paintings, art, art interpretation, art criticism
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
