Buy this book on-line HERBERT READ : A Letter to a Young Painter. EssaysThames & Hudson, London, 1962
First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 277pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-eight plates of reproductions. Top edge very lightly spotted, and with a small area of light staining to the base of the rear pastedown. Contemporary former owner name and date neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled, with a little toning to the spine panel, and a strip of moisture marking to the base of the rear panel. The first printing of the 41pp title essay, which is followed by a further twenty-seven essays collected from various sources and including many hitherto unprinted in bookform. The subjects include Ben Nicholson, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Klee, Le Corbusier, Fernane Leger, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, &c.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HERBERT READ : A Letter to a Young Painter. Essays. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, used books, libri rari, livres illustrées and livres d'occasion. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |