- Seller Inventory #: 060103-A
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Illustrator: Aberto Giacometti
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1965
- Keywords: Art / Giacometti / Itlian Artist
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1965 Book. Illus. by Aberto Giacometti. Very Good. Hard Cover Cloth. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st.ed. 1965 , Hardcover missing the dust jacket, 119 page book. Illustrated with black and white with some color plates. A very Good referance book on the work of Giacometti. Condition: Clean tight book with just the lightest of a bump and edge ware.With no DJ..
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
