Trumpets from Montparnasse
by Gibbings Robert
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
J M Dent & Son, London, 1955. First Edition. Black Cloth. Good/Good. Illustrator: Gibbings Robert. gilt titles & vignette spine; gilt vignette front; photo. of author on inside rear flap; illustrated by 8 col. plates & 40 b/w. wood engravings; "Mr. Gibbings knows and loves his Paris almost as well as he knows and loves his Cork, and brings every aspect of the world of the Left Bank with its distinctive colour and movement to his reader with an effortless and vivid reality. Apart from an account of his own work 'with brushes and paint,' examples of which are included in the illustrations, his admirers will find in this latest book all the features that won popularity for its predecessors - beautifuI wood engravings, the same keen eye for the unusual and the interesting, the deft touch with character and atmosphere and, as always, the rich storehouse of wit and humour."; some fading to front cover & bottom edge; Foyles bookseller's small label inside front cover; light foxing inside rear cover; mylar-protected, price-intact D/J. has light edge-wear & internal repairs to closed tears in spine; 201 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Gibbings Robert. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Biographies/Autobiographies; Travel; Wood Engravings; France; 1900-1920; Travel & Places. Inventory No: ART00090. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ART00090
- Title
- Trumpets from Montparnasse
- Author
- Gibbings Robert
- Illustrator
- Gibbings Robert
- Format/Binding
- Black Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J M Dent & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Art/Travel/Autobiography/France/ Montparnasse/Robert Gibbings/Wood Engravings Art & Design; Biographies/Autobiographies; Travel; Wood Engravings; France; 1900-1920; Travel & Places. Gibbings Robert Unbranded Gibbings Robert Trumpets from
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- Vignette
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