Some Old Portraits. A Book About Art and Human Beings
£100 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books
First edition · Signed
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. Portraiture INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo 26 x 18cm , pp.xx; 249 3 . With 12 colour plates, each reproducing one of the paintings discussed. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'For | John Booth | from | Elizabeth Stanley Trotter | of Cleeve Gate | and inscribed, with | hearty regard and admiration, | by | Booth Tarkington. | Christmas 1940.' Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles
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