Fifty Centuries of Art
by TAYLOR, Francis Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Book club edition. An attempt to boil down the long history of human artistic accomplishment into a single volume. With plenty of color illustrations depicting paintings, sculpture and other art forms. Published for the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Harper & Brothers. --- In blue paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with cover titling in blind and spine titling in gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With mild soiling to covers, else a clean, tightly-bound, bright copy.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; viii, 184 pages .
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- Seller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 86047
- Title
- Fifty Centuries of Art
- Author
- TAYLOR, Francis Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Quarto
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- Good+
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- Book Club Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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