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The 70s in Pictures: A photo journey through the tumultuous seventies.

by LESCOTT, JAMES:

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UK,12mo French wraps,p/back Original,1st edn.[French flaps are a design in which the covers includes an extra internal folded piece of cover inside each side,giving the publisher more room to tell you about the book,and gives you a built-in bookmark to fold into place. Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format in the country of its origina ,and sometimes even worldwide.] NFINE. No owner inscrptn - no price removal - publisher's price absent. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,sharp-cornered,French flap covers with 3 glossy montaged contemporary photographs (2 colour,1 b/w) with glossy pale blue lettering to front card cover,pale blue and other black lettered spine/backstrip which has no reading creases,rear cover with pale blue lettered contents precis; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present,but some inevitable but minimal and superficial scoring/indents to either cover.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread,other than my own collation. UK,12mo French flaps,p/back Original,1st edn,6-256pp [paginated] includes an introduction,chronological years (1970-79) profuse (over 250) contemporary colour+b/w photographs throughout with relevant commentary captions where necessary and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with b/w photographic frntis to its verso of David Bowie performing as his alter ego Ziggy Stardust in 1973,a title page and contents list/table. 'The 70s In Pictures' is one of a series of books that together provide a comprehensive pictorial history of the 20th century, decade by decade.With over 250 pictures,this volume is a unique record of an age at once charming and terrifying,under a pall of insecurity extending over a frightened world: The troubles in Northern Ireland and terrorism at the Munich Olympic Games, "beautiful people" and the arrival of Punk,the inspiring "giant leap for mankind" and the shame of the Watergate Scandal. Here,caught by the world's greatest photographers,are the hopes and fears of a world still torn apart. . . from the SALT treaties to the slaughter of Beirut,from Hanoi Jane to Nixon in China,from the Camp David peace Agreement to the crimes of Baader-Meinhof and the Red Brigade. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.


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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja1008622
Title
The 70s in Pictures: A photo journey through the tumultuous seventies.
Author
LESCOTT, JAMES:
Illustrator
illus with profuse contemporary b/w+colour photographs.
Book Condition
Used - Near FINE.
Jacket Condition
No dw/dj - wraps - p/back Original.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
UK,12mo French flaps,p/back Original,1st edn.
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
LONDON.ENDEAVOR LONDON LTD.,/EXCLUSIVE EDITIONS for Marks & Spencer p.l.c.,2010.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
*q52*.GENERAL.UK,12mo French flaps,p/back Original,1st edn.No ISBN.1970-79_worldwide events.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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About R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY.

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