Author: RODIN, AUGUSTE; WEINBERG, LOUIS
Title: The Art of Rodin (Modern Library First Edition in Spine 1, #41. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Boni and Liveright, Inc, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. A first Modern Library edition presenting photos of major sculptural works and drawings by France's Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Offered by publisher Boni & Liveright in the second year of the Modern Library series in 1918. Includes an essay on Rodin's art by Louis Weinberg and frontis photographic portrait of Rodin by Edward Steichen. --- In Toledano spine #1 / brown leatherette ("Croft leather") limp boards / printed on gloss pale yellow leaves / gilt spine titling / gilt Modern Library-BL device to cover / brown topstain / mottled brown style A endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. ML #41.1. --- Exposure to dampness has resulted in minor rippling to volume, with near total loss of spine gilding, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; 37, (c.100) pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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