French Costumes [together with eight hand-colored cards of French costume pasted onto the endpapers]
by Varagnac, Andre, preface; Designed by E. Lepage-Medvey; Translated by Mary Chamot
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London, Paris, New York: The Hyperion Press, 1939. First Edition thus. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 16 pp of text (pp 7 to 23) followed by 40 brightly colored plates (13 by 9 inches, or 31 by 23 cm) on hard card stock showing traditional dress of the various regions of France. Each plate is accompanied with a separate sheet of light paper with a caption. As an extra bonus a prior owner pasted (lightly) eight cards with hand-colored images of women in French peasant dress. These cards are 9 by 13 cm. The print technology used for the plates coming with the book was photo lithography. The text comes with a still useful bibliography of costume books. This copy is disbound but otherwise the plates are all in fine condition. Minor wear, creases and like to some of the caption sheets. DJ with minor corner chips and now protected with mylar. As to the cards, they have some minor soilage (light fingerprint, dust, etc.). One has a small corner chip. Presumably they came in two envelopes which are also pasted to the rear endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001372
- Title
- French Costumes [together with eight hand-colored cards of French costume pasted onto the endpapers]
- Author
- Varagnac, Andre, preface; Designed by E. Lepage-Medvey; Translated by Mary Chamot
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Hyperion Press
- Place of Publication
- London, Paris, New York
- Date Published
- 1939
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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