Just In - The Complete Works of John Ruskin

This is the compete set of 30 volumes published circa 1900 by Thomas Y. Crowell and Company in New York City. There is a bit of damage to one book and shelf wear on all of them; else, a set of clean, tight books with no loose or missing pages. Last book contains an index to all the books in the set.

If you are interesting in purchasing this set, please go to our shop on the ABEBooks web site. The price is $650 for the set and postage within the USA is $45 for the entire set. If you need to have this set shipped out of the United States, please contact us for the shipping cost to your country.

Karsh - Portraits of Greatness

A large book, 9 X 12, it has more than 90 full page Black and White photographs by portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. The photographs are all persons of fame and distinction from various fields. Literary figures include Georges Enesco, Ernest More... Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Mann, Somerset Maugham. Artists include Picasso, Norman Rockwell, Jean Cocteau. Scientists such as Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and statesmen such as Churchill, Dag Hammarskjold, as well as Popes, composers, architects, actors, musicians are here also. The portraits are accompanied by Karsh's commentary on the unique experience of taking each portrait.

The book was published by Thomas Nelson And Sons Ltd, New York, in 1960. It is a hard cover book in good condition without a dust jacket. It is a 2nd Edition and has black boards with silver and black lettering. There is some fraying on corners of spine and slight separations along the length of the spine. The block is clean and tight.

Bookseller Inventory # 0899
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Stain on front of book

Two rubbed corners

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