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Baroque Splendor: A Source Book of Lavish Living
by REYNOLDS, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Creative Age Press. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. An inscribed, limited edition of this tribute to lavish architecture and lifestyles by author and painter James Reynolds. The author visits and reports on various elegant structures in far-flung world-wide locations. Includes eighteen full-page red-toned "sanguine" paintings by Mr. Reynolds, and with his "The Young Margravine Drives to the Hunt" to endpapers, also in sanguine tones. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Inscribed by the author on half title: "To / Horace Hammond. / Who has added many / fine touches to Baroque & / Rococo homes. / All best wishes / James Reynolds." --- In pale grey cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped cover & spine titling; red topstain. Jacket with Reynolds artwork to front and back panels. --- With a little chafing, light soiling and sunning to edges of cloth; else a sound, tightly-bound copy. Fair only unclipped dust jacket with chipping to extremities (especially to spine) and darkened spine, remains mostly intact and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; 271 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83854
- Title
- Baroque Splendor: A Source Book of Lavish Living
- Author
- REYNOLDS, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Creative Age Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
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About the Seller
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Fair
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- Inscribed
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