The world from here : treasures of the great libraries of Los Angeles (catalogue of an exhibition at the Hammer Museum, 17 October 2001-13 January 2002)
Los Angeles, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts / Getty Publications, 2001
(28.5 cm), 464 pp., illustrations (most in colour). 391 catalogue entries. Publisher’s cloth, paper inlay on upper cover. - Detailed catalogue entries by specialists, with essays by Anthony Grafton (Libraries in the West: a matter of tradition), Nicolas Barker (”An infinity of good, singular, and remarkable books”), and Kenneth A. Breisch (”A source of sure authority”: library building in Los Angeles during the twentieth century). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.
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- Subjects
- Rare books - Exhibitions
- Authors/Creators
- Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center (Los Angeles)
- Burlingham, Cynthia, born 1955, co-editor
- Whiteman, Bruce, co-editor
- ISBN
- 0892366591
- 9780892366590
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