1900 West, Rebecca,
0103942 Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1982, First British Edition. Hardcover, Good Condition/Reasonable 192 pages, picture acknowledgements, chronology, and index. Red coloured endpapers. Coloured illustrated frontispiece, being a reproduction of Pierre Bonnards' painting " The Bourgeois Afternoon 1900 ". The text is illustrated with copious contemporary black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Brown coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Heavy shelfwear to the lower book edges and bumping to the lower book corners. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing on the front panel " The Cycling Hut in the Bois de Boulogne " by Jean Beraud and on the back panel " Le Moulin de la Galette " by Pablo Picasso, both paintings painted approximately 1900. Red and bone writing on the front panel and black on the spine. The dustwrapper is a little rubbed and there are a few small nicks to the top dustwrapper edge. A biography of the year 1900 and of the germination of momentous events that would shape the 20th century. Size: Landscape Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Politics ; History -- Modern ; ISBN: 029777963X. ISBN/EAN: 9780297779636. Inventory No: 0103942. ISBN: 029777963X $25.00AUD Click here to order or message the dealer
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