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Twenty-Eight Drawings
by Coomaraswamy, Ananda
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Sunwise Turn, 1920. First Edition. Wrappers. Thin folio. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good. Finely printed on rice paper. Original wrappers string-bound in the Japanese manner. Paper title label laid on front wrapper. Original limitation slip laid in. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which 222 were for sale. 28 reproductions of chalk or brush line-drawing studies of the female nude. Green rice paper wrappers sunned at periphery, creased, stained in spots. Closed tears to bottom edge and leading corner of rear wrapper with no material loss. Damp stain to leading edge of flyleaf, title page, and contents page. Pages of drawings in fine, un-marked condition. Quite scarce. Only 14 copies located through WorldCat (OCLC # 3644188), 2 of which are publicly held. Ananda Coomaraswamy, a prominent art historian and scholar of traditional iconography, served as curator in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until his death in 1947.
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- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000126
- Title
- Twenty-Eight Drawings
- Author
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda
- Illustrator
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda
- Format/Binding
- Original wrappers string-bound in the Japanese manner.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sunwise Turn
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Pages
- 28
- Size
- Folio, 12-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Drawings, Nude
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
All listed items are physically in our possession and will normally ship within 48 hours, securely packaged to prevent damage in transit. Within the U.S., we ship USPS Media Mail with insurance against loss or damage. Tracking number provided. Orders with destinations outside the U.S., expedited shipments, oversized/heavy items or sets will require an update of shipping charges before the sale is completed. All items are returnable within 72 hours of receipt with prior notification, if found to be not as described. Safe return shipment is the client's responsibility.
About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Worldcat
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- Sunned
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- Wrappers
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Folio
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- Title Page
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