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Canal Street.
by FRAZIER, Ian, & Saul Steinberg
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art,, 1990. First edition, first printing, limited to 160 copies signed by the author and the artist, first woodcut also numbered and initialled by the artist. Canal Street, was were Frazier lived in New York for twelve years, it crosses Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Holland Tunnel. The first title in the Whitney Museums Artists and Writers: American Journals series. Folio. Quarter black morocco with yellow cloth boards, lettering to spine gilt. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated with two full page original woodcuts and 16 tipped in colour offset lithographs. Boards lightly rubbed, internally fine.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 167653
- Title
- Canal Street.
- Author
- FRAZIER, Ian, & Saul Steinberg
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art,
- Date Published
- 1990
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Morocco
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Folio
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