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The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Modern Library #49.2)
by SYMONDS, John Addington
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. [c.1960]. Hardcover. The life the great Italian painter, sculptor, architect and writer is presented in this Modern Library hardcover reprint edition. With eye-catching color illustration on jacket front panel by E. McKnight Kauffer. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso advertises 393 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1960 (no publication date appears in book). ML #49.2. --- With penciled bookseller notations on title page, otherwise a clean, unmarked, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.95) with a 4 cm. wrinkled tear to top front edge along with sunned spine, else bright, intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall) ; viii, [2], 544, [6] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88410
- Title
- The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Modern Library #49.2)
- Author
- SYMONDS, John Addington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1960]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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About the Seller
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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