Isbn: 9780801413513 - Story of Modern Art (9 results)

Condition: Poor. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: YES ] [ Broken Seams: YES ] Reprint edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in good dust jacket. 382 p. Contemporary Philosophy. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name BB 18.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. VG / VG+. 1st Printing of the 1980 Cornell stated 1st Edition, with preface and introduction by the Author. Book is securely bound (there is some looseness, no gutter separation or splitting) and free of markings and blemishes. Cover is clean and bright, with gently bumped joints, top corners and tail, sharp lower corners, straight headcap, spine, hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct gilt stamped lettering and design. Dust Jacket is unclipped, encased in protective mylar and mildly age toned, with minor bumping to the head and tail the only discernible flaws (appearance of soiling is only to the mylar). (Please see Seller images.) ISBN 0801413516. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping. ADDITIONAL CHARGE (DUE TO APPROX 3# SHIPPING WEIGHT) WILL APPLY IF SHIPPED OUTSIDE CONTINENTAL US; CONTACT SHIROBOOKS PRIOR TO ORDERING or for more information, details or photos.…

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

Couverture souple. Condition: Satisfaisant. Cornell Univ Pr, 1980. 1 volume broché(s) format In-8 assez bon couverture cornée.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 382pp. Stated: "First published 1980 by Cornell University Press". Colorful frontispiece, "The Cardiff Team" (1913) by Robert Delauney; "Over 300 Illustrations, 85 in color". Biographical Notes, pp. 351-376; Bibliography, pp. 377-378; Index, pp. 379-382. // "Published in the same format as E.H. Gombrich's classic The Story of Art, this volume surveys in detail the art of the twentieth century--a period covered briefly in Gombrich's closing chapters. [The author] discusses more than 250 key works and seeks to enable the reader to feel comfortable with modern art. He brings out the motives behind movements and trends, showing them to be serious attempts to make art honest and significant again after a century that many felt too often honored the hollow and pretentious. . . Pointing to continuities and echoes of more traditional elements within modern art, he sees no essential break or opposition between modern art and the art of the past". // Brown boards with brilliant gilt on spine. Binding tight, corners sharp, NO rubbing wear; a whisker of diminished brown across only part of heel of spine (where dw must have been riding high, perhaps, or a fluke during book manufacture: at any rate, extremely nugatory.) Glossy white dustwrapper not price-clipped (no price), with author name in small black letters at top right front cover, title in purple across upper half front cover, above color illustration across bottom half front cover, "Bathers by a River" (Matisse, 1916-17); white spine is toned and lightly toned across top of covers and down gutter area front left front cover; very slight rubbing wear to corner tips; top spine edge with slight wrinkles; two long thin scratches on rear cover with two associated pinpoints of penetration, but NO damage to rear cover itself, and two lengths on rear cover left edge (1" and 1 1/2", respectively) of abrasive rub to dustwrapper edge (again, NO damage to book edge itself: dw has done its job); one smal triangular spot on rear cover where glossy lamination was peeled (now reglued, flat): Now in Brodart mylar which forgives these sins graciously. No previous owner names. Clean text. Book, as artifact, looks Unread, despite flaws to dw. …

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