Portrait Of Myself
by Bourke-White, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1963. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Boards show light shelf wear, DJ is heavily damaged with significant portion missing from top front. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Many of her photos reproduced in the book ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 383 pages; "Here are the tales of her struggles to master her art and craft, of photographing Stalin, Gandhi and many other notables, of being torpedoed off North Africa while reporting World War II, of flying combat missions, of photographing the dread murder camps of Nazi Germany, of touring Tobacco Road to produce the book You Have Seen Their Faces with Erskine Caldwell (whom she later married), of adventures and wonderful picture-taking in the mines of South Africa, in the frozen North, in war-torn Korea." .
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Details
- Seller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 21424
- Title
- Portrait Of Myself
- Author
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Photography, parkinson's disease
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHOTOGRAPHY;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....