Condition Continued: There is no other print on the front flap. On the rear flap there is a message from Greenberg regarding receiving 'announcements of new and forthcoming books.'
The book itself is in very nice shape. The covers are quite clean, one very small spot on the front and one very small spot on the rear. There are two dents at the front bottom edge, one created a small spot of rub-through. Otherwise the edges are in very good shape. The corners have either tiny bits of rubbing or tiny spots of rub-through. The spine ends have some crinkling, the bottom one has two small spots of rub-through.. The label on the spine is in excellent condition. The book is solidly bound from cover to cover. I didn't see any cracks or spaces between any of the facing pages. The covers are nicely, tightly bound. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I'm not finding any instances of soiling. I'm also not finding any creasing, no placeholder creases or turned-down corners. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere.
Greenberg, Publisher, New York, 1927. Hardcover. First American Edition (NAP; Greenberg, Publisher= NAP).
There are sixteen full-page illustrations including the frontispiece. I went through the pages to make sure that they were all present. They were and are, and all are in excellent condition. One other thing: inside the book when I purchased it was a separate nine-page article about Degas titled The Field Of Art by Royal Cortissoz, an American art historian and the art critic for the New York Herald Tribune of 1891 to 1948. It comes with the book.