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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Chicago Daily News, North-Mariano Press, 1933. Hardcover. Condition: near fine+ The North-Mariano Press; Chicago Daily News, 1933. Two-volume set, hard cover; first edition. Yello clothe with black titles on cover and spine and red dot on overs The corners are very slightly bumped no dust jackets, as issued. unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Text/AS New & Bright. Sienna-orange linen boars/NF w/rubs to corner tips & trace dent to lower back leading edge. DJ/None. PO name to front cover verso. 1927 vintage analysis & critic of Modern Art. Indiana-born journalist, Clarence Joseph Billiet (1883 - 1952), with a most diverse educational background, began his newspaper career w/the Louisville Herald, then joined the Indianapolis Star as a police reporter to become its drama critic. From 1924 to his death in 1952, Bulliet was the most important art critic in Chicago. His judgments are admirable. Here's an quote: "Matisse and Picasso are the two painters since Cezanne of assured position high in the Pantheon of the Modern Renaissance - the greatest movement in art history since the Italian awakening. Gauguin, Van Gogh and Renoir were contemporaries of the arch revolutionist of Aix." Keen-eyed & confident early appreciation of Modern Art albeit many a scholary work followed. 249 pages w/24 illustrations in 20 essays. . Arichival Photographs (illustratore).…