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VAN WIE, CARRIE (ART); LEWIS, OSCAR (TEXT) - The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie: Paintings of San Francisco at the Turn of the Century

Title: The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie: Paintings of San Francisco at the Turn of the Century
Description: [San Francisco]: The Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, 1963. Hardcover. A portfolio of 21 reproductions of oil paintings by Carrie Van Wie. The subjects of these paintings are pre-fire San Francisco buildings and notable city sights at the turn of the 20th century. Each with descriptive text by Oscar Lewis. Title page with a photographic portrait of Ms. Van Wie, and her painting of her home on Collins Street in San Francisco. One of 525 copies issued. --- In green paper-covered boards with the look of tapestries, backed in tan linen cloth with "Carrie Van Wie" printed on paper spine label. Unpaginated (about 50 pp.). Volume has no dust jacket. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy but with slight chafing to lower cover edges.; Folio - 13 to 23 in. tall; [c.50 pp] pages. Very Good+ .

Keywords: >>Art / Architecture / Fashion

Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 84682