Picasso's Picassos, hardcover 1st, tipped-in plates

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Picasso’s Picassos , by David Douglas Duncan.Harper & Brothers, NY, 1961. Large, heavy 4to, off-white cloth covers, 271 pp, including 102 tipped-in color plates and 12 color photographs, five of them 2-page. A 10 thousand word text connect the paintings to Picasso’s life. Biographical section (20 pp), catalog, photographic index, and note by author. Pictorial dust jacket. First edition. The book documents every Picasso hidden by the artist in his home La Californie, many of them seen by for the first time through the book’s publication. Picasso and Duncan worked on the project for over six months, to ensure the color accuracy of each painting. Condition: Good++/no dust jacket. Interior clean, binding tight. The interior plates are in Very Good+ condition, the cover has minor wear, 2 corners bumped and moderate sunning/discoloration. An inch of page edges slightly dinged at the side for about a dozen pages, but only affecting the edges. Very slight foxing to a few of the pages, minor foxing to page edges. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELLER INFORMATION As a bookseller and librarian from a family in the book business for many years, I truly enjoy getting out-of-print and hard-to-find books to my customers. Please feel free to contact me with any questions and I will get back to you within a day or two. Please keep in mind when leaving Detailed Seller Ratings regarding shipping and handling: SHIPPING TIMES: My stated lag time between payment and sending out is five business days, but I usually make it shorter. However, but if you need something shipped faster please let me know. Generally, I go to the post office at least twice a week; usually Tuesdays and Fridays OR Mondays and Thursdays. Domestic Media Mail shipping, including Delivery Confirmation, is standard. This applies to any address in the US and Puerto Rico, as well as to APO addresses. Media Mail is trucked to its destination, and shipped by boat to Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, On the average it takes 3 to 10 days to arrive, depending on the distance and the vagaries of the US Postal Service. Shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, APO and other off-shore addresses take longer to arrive. During the pre-Christmas season, Media Mail is subject to delays.Additionally, the stated price includes shipping and packaging. Please consider the height and weight of the book--and this one is quite big-- when approximating how much was added to the price. For very large or non-standard size books or for sending several at a time, I occasionally reuse clean boxes, but in most cases I purchase mailing boxes for between 40 cents and a dollar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As both a bookseller and a librarian, my mission is to get the right book into the hand of the person looking for it. Please feel free to contact me with any questions and I will get back to you within a day or two if not sooner. Please keep in mind when leaving Detailed Seller Ratings: SHIPPING AND HANDLING CHARGES: Although the total postage for books may come out to a little less than the $4.00 media mail I typically charge, these costs also include shipping materials charges. Most of my boxes for small to medium sized books are purchased for 40 cents to one dollar. Sometimes I reuse clean boxes for larger or off-shape books that would not fit into standard book boxes, but in any case for larger or heavier books, the $4.00 often does not cover the total cost of shipping. COMBINING SHIPPING I do reduce total shipping for more than one purchase. I don't always have time to weigh the books to calculate precise combined shipping, but if it comes out to more at the post office I refund the difference. SHIPPING TIMES: My stated lag time between payment and sending out is five business days, but I usually ma... read more

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