Painted Veils **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!**
Huneker, James
Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1930
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**EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN FINE CONDITION!**
Painted Veils by James Huneker. New York: The Modern Library, 1930 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a GORGEOUS PRISTINE FIRST PRINTING of a rare Modern Library title in a great pictorial dust jacket. Bound in red balloon cloth (spine #5) with Kent end papers. Very short-lived binding style, in use 1929 - Spring 1930. This gold-heavy design was planned before the 1929 crash, and was quickly deemed too expensive for Depression-era book publishing. The gold torchbearer was replaced with a blindstamped torchbearer, and in 1930, the gold tree was dropped.
The book is FINE and PRISTINE!! Solid binding, bright gilt on cover and spine, perfect matching red topstain. Contents are clean with no owner's signature or other writing in text. GORGEOUS! BOOK APPEARS UNREAD AND UNOPENED IN NEW BOOKSTORE CONDITION!!
The beautiful pictorial dust jacket is FINE- with slightest of chipping on back flap fold. Extremely clean and bright with no fading which is very rare for this title! 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. The back of the dust jacket mentions 175 titles matching a 1930 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. GORGEOUS!
EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET IN PRISTINE CONDTION!!
**I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**. Seller Inventory # 001051
Bibliographic Details
Title: Painted Veils **EXTREMELY RARE FIRST MODERN ...
Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
Publication Date: 1930
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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