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AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, THE FIRST CENTURY From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art
by Foresta, Merry A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1560987189
- ISBN 13
- 9781560987185
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Smithsonian. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 1560987189 . Clean tan cloth with gilt title on front cover & spine. Text tight, clean & intact. Multi- frontispiece. Illustrated with photographs. Albumen prints; tintype; daguerreotype; salt & pepper print; platinum print. Clean & intact dust Jacket. Photography ; Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 171 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15085
- Title
- AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, THE FIRST CENTURY From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art
- Author
- Foresta, Merry A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1560987189
- ISBN 13
- 9781560987185
- Publisher
- Smithsonian
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 1560987189
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Gilt
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