Animals: Photographs
by SHAY, Art
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0252027426
- ISBN 13
- 9780252027420
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 132pp. Extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/very good. A Tight and quite attractive first edition of this far-ranging gathering of the renowned Chicago photojournalist's black and white images from across the globe and across many decades. Inscribed and signed quite large and bold in black fineline on the front flyleaf: "For Austin -- / When you're old enough / to enjoy these pictures / Grandpa ERNIE will / sit you on his lap & / tell you about them. / He loves you very much -- / with love / Art Shay / May 21 02."
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41626
- Title
- Animals: Photographs
- Author
- SHAY, Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0252027426
- ISBN 13
- 9780252027420
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Photography; Natural History;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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