The Magic Box: Exploits of a Street-Photographer
by Pendrigh, Ernest
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: John Long Limited, 1954 Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 156 pp, list of b&w illustrations, I. Enter Ernie with Camera; II. The Magic Box; III. The Old Soldier; IV. The Magic Box Makes an arrest!; V. Lone Wolf Once Again; VI. On the Knocker; VII. It Could Have Been Murder; VIII. Off on the Ocean Wave; IX. A Dash to the Derby; X. Everything Happens at Sea; XI. Missing -- a Husband; XII. The Tolling Stone Rolls On; XIII. My Donkey Serenade; XIV. The Mokes Make New; XV. The Gazoompers; XVI. I Join the Showmen; XVII. The Battle of Trafalgar Square. First Edition, 1954. "This book is the autobiography of an Australian who settles in Britain making a living as a street-photographer using an Aptus to take Ferrotype photograph." Price clipped. 1 1/4" square chip to top edge spine dj with 4" closed tear rear panel, and wear to bottom edge front panel of same. Lighlty foxed text block edges, else, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003809
- Title
- The Magic Box: Exploits of a Street-Photographer
- Author
- Pendrigh, Ernest
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Long Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- PHOTOGRAPHY AUSTRALIAN-BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHERS PENDRIGH ERNEST STREET-PHOTOGRAPHER MEMOIR
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHOTOGRAPHY;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- Foxed
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Marginalia
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- Edges
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