Portrait of America
by Rivera, Diego
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 60 b&w reproductions of the artist's visions of past, present and future America. Pale red tint to top edge. A spot of foxing to a couple of pages. Small green bookseller label on rear paste-down. Previous owner's label on front fep. 231 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Poor. Price clipped. Foxin to covers and verso. Sunning to spine. Open tears. Edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with red lettering. Discolouration to the cloth.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 305729
- Title
- Portrait of America
- Author
- Rivera, Diego
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art etc. (International);
Terms of Sale
Quagga Books
If an item is misdescribed we will offer a full refund. Tracking is only offered on the expedited postage option. Please note we offer the standard postage option without any tracking as an option for lower priced items as courier from South Africa is costly. Thus standard postage items in transit are at the purchaser's risk. Postage based on standard average sizes, if an item is particularly small, we will reduce the postage. If an item is larger than standard size, postage may increase.
About the Seller
Quagga Books
Biblio member since 2018
Cape Town
About Quagga Books
We have been in business for over 25 years. Situated in Kalk Bay, Cape Town at the Southern tip of Africa, we deal in all types of collectable books. Over the years we have been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide, The Guardian and numerous others.
Glossary
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.