Some old portraits: a book about art and human beings

by Booth Tarkington

$100 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939 . First edition limited to 247 copies signed by Tarkington, 4to, 2 , xx, 249; vignette title-page printed in black and yellow, 22 plates 14 in color ; original tan linen over beveled boards, stamped and lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, pictorial paper onlay mounted to front cover, t.e.g.; lacking publisher's glassine jacket and slipcover; very good or better. Tarkington muses on paintings of English notables from

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