John Singleton Copley
by Flexner, James Thomas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. 4to size buckram or clothbound hardcover with red title block on spine and front cover with gilt line decoration; 139 pages "This volume is a completely revised and greatly enlarged version of the biography of John Singleton Copley originally published by The Viking Press, Inc. in 1939 as part of (the author's) book America's Old Masters." Contents include: Terror on Long Wharf Foreign Grace and Native Vigor Advice by Letter Golden Years The Painter and the Tea An Old Dog and New Tricks, more Name written on inside cover; small tacky area on fep where sticker was removed; sunned spine; light soil to covers. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005634
- Title
- John Singleton Copley
- Author
- Flexner, James Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1948
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- John Singleton Copley; art; artists; artwork; Art Work; painters; paintings; Riverside Press;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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- Jacket
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- New
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Buckram
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- 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....