Fifty Photographs [WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY] Merle Armitage, Donald Bear, Robinson Jeffers [INSCRIBED BY EDWARD WESTON]
by Weston, Edward
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About This Item
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 1/1500. Large quarto (12 by 9.25 in.). 16pp. (text); 51 b/w photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in pale green and silver. Covers rubbed, with slight wear, at extremities; spine lettering rubbed and faded; 5 photographic leaves with cellotape repairs at corners, barely encroaching on images (2 with creases extending into corner of images). A good copy.
"The photographs collected in this volume are fifty of my favorite photographs chosen because they have lived well and because they have not been reproduced (excepting certain annuals and magazine) in book form before." With a final image of the photographer at Point Lobos. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies, initialed by Weston at the limitation, this being no. 1375.
Provenance: "Inscribed for Lou Jacobs Cordially Edward Weston" in ink at the half-title.
"The photographs collected in this volume are fifty of my favorite photographs chosen because they have lived well and because they have not been reproduced (excepting certain annuals and magazine) in book form before." With a final image of the photographer at Point Lobos. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies, initialed by Weston at the limitation, this being no. 1375.
Provenance: "Inscribed for Lou Jacobs Cordially Edward Weston" in ink at the half-title.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53530
- Title
- Fifty Photographs [WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY] Merle Armitage, Donald Bear, Robinson Jeffers [INSCRIBED BY EDWARD WESTON]
- Author
- Weston, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan, & Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
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