Vintage Swimsuits: Images from the Walker Photo Collection
by Walker, Rex P
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
No Place: [author] / Blurb, 2008. Reproduces trhe author's large collection of amateur photographs of (mostly) women in swimsuits, "Sifted from albums and shoeboxes", from the 1890s or so in to the 1950s, with a very few more recent, mostly b/w or sepia-toned, a few in color. Self-published through the Blurb website in 2008, no longer available there, nor can we discover anything about the collector. The photos are well-reproduced, enlarged from their original size, uncropped and unaltered; mostly one to a page. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor dents & dings, small waterstain to lower rear panel, contexts unaffecrted. Unpaginated, about [118] pages, almost all with photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 13" by 11".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u0761os
- Title
- Vintage Swimsuits: Images from the Walker Photo Collection
- Author
- Walker, Rex P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- [author] / Blurb
- Place of Publication
- No Place
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- Vernacular Photography, Vintage Clothing, Candid Photos, Amateur Photography, Women, Bathing Costume
- Bookseller catalogs
- Costumes & Textiles; Photography;
- Size
- 13" by 11"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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