The Ivory Hammer: The Year at Sotheby's, 219th Season 1962 - 1963
PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
BINDING
Red cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITION
Good, just a little wear to edges of boards. Printed pages and illustrations are clear with few discernable marks.
DUST JACKET
Wear at edges and ends of the spine, a small tear top left. A couple of marks on back cover. Preserved in removable book wrap.
EDITION
1963.
DESCRIPTION
Illustrated throughout with very many black and white and coloured photographs. Some pages of a heavy pale grey / green paper. Illustrated endpapers. 254 pp. Quarto, approx. 27 x 21cm.
SYNOPSIS
A beautifully illustrated year at Sotheby's, with articles on the principal sales that took place by various experts. Begins with an entertaining James Bond short story by Ian Fleming, "The Property of a Lady."