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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer [Deckle Edge]
by O'Connor, Anne-Marie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307265641
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265647
- Seller
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About This Item
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Clean stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket - now in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Clean sunny beige boards with matching cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Slight bumping to spine ends, else no wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages and edges are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 54 b&w photographs. 349 pages. Clean beautiful dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. .
Synopsis
Anne-Marie O’Connor attended Vassar College, studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a foreign correspondent for Reuters and a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times for twelve years, and has written extensively on the Klimt painting and the Bloch-Bauer family’s efforts to recover its art collection. Her articles have appeared in Esquire, The Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor . She currently writes for The Washington Post from Mexico City, where her husband, William Booth, is Post bureau chief.
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- Title
- The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer [Deckle Edge]
- Author
- O'Connor, Anne-Marie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307265641
- ISBN 13
- 9780307265647
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Biography, art, Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, first edition, portraits, fine arts, Anne-Marie O'Connor, art history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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