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Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975. Soft cover. Fair/No jacket. First edition. Cover is rubbed and worn along edges. Binding glue exposed between covers and first and last pages, but binding is secure. Foxing around inner edges of pages 6-7. Stain on page 49, bleeding into pages 50-52 and covering some text, but not affecting legibility. All other pages are clean and unmarked. As is.

Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography - The University of Arizona, 1981. First edition. Small oblong softcover. 20 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 8 through December 17, 1981. Features an essay by Jeanne C. Finley. Includes 10 black and white images. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.

Holt McDougal, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Former owner's name in ink on front inside cover, otherwise clean and unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of covers and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging across covers and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Holt, Rinehart, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the boards. Slightly cocked spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1975. First edition and first printing. Softcover. The simultaneous paperback issue. Features text by Aileen M. Smith that accompanies her husband's heart wrenching black and white images which showed the damages from chemical poisoning to the Japanese island Kyushu. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with some light edge wear and a small remainder mark to the bottom edge of the pages. Internally a clean copy.There was a recently released well received movie about Minamata starring Johnny Deep as Smith. (Roth 232-233).

Shoju-sha, 1972. Softcover. good/No jacket. dr1. 12 loose plates 12 x 16. In a worn pictorial folio.Name written inside cover.

UsedVeryGood. Wraps are firm, text block clean, no highlights/underlining or markings. Some curling lower front wrap. Near fine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. US veteran operated.

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket issued. Small area of laminate peeling on bottom edge of cover. Bookplate from previous owner on Free Front end paper.

Good++, No Dust Jacket Soju-sha 1973 FOLIO, B/W Illus, Paperback Softcover. Black and white softcover folio folder containing 12 black and white plates. English text sheet laid in. Plates are in nice condition, lightly bumped at corners. Folder shows light edge wear, creasing and soil.Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1975. Very good, foxing to half-title page. First Edition 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, 192 pages, red cloth in simulated leather finish, Dust Jacket (several tears and chips at top edge).

Japan: Soju-sha, 1973. Book. Very Good. No Binding. Loose plates in portfolio. Text in English and Japanese. Japan: n.p. (1973). First edition. Folio. Loose sheets in folding pictorial and lettered chemise. All plates have a trace of edge tanning else fine in similiar folding chemise with a bit of light soiling and scuffing. Extremities have a bit of wear. Spine has a tiny hole else very good. A nice copy of this uncommon and beautifully produced portfolio consisting of twelve 12" x 16" beautifully reproduced images from W. Eugene Smith's landmark photo essay on the people of Minamata, Japan and the devasting effects of the local chemical plants on the local citizens and workers. Published to accompany the exhibition "Minamata. Life Sacred and Profane" presented at Seibu Department Store exhibition hall and in other Japanese cities. Accompanying is a chronology of Smith's life and work. Text in English and Japanese..

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. Quarto, 192 pages with dozens of illustrations from photographs (many full-page). Synthetic cloth very slightly bumped; edges and leaves adjacent to the endpapers foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly worn and with three closed tears (the most notable approximately 65 mm in length on the front panel). 'Minamata is a fishing and farming town on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. Its people joined the industrial age when the Chisso Corporation built a chemical factory there. The disaster that then befell them, and the ways in which some have managed to respond, reach far beyond Japan ... Many individuals fell ill with the same symptoms: limbs and lips tingled and then became numb; speech slurred; motor functions went out of control. Some died ... Minamata's disease was recognized as methyl mercury poisoning from industrial wasters ... As… Read More

Holt, Rinehart. Paperback. Good. 12x9x0.

UsedGood. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing Pages are clean! There is a lot of wear and tear on the cover Some corner dings. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Japan: Soju-sha, 1973. First edition. Softcover. Text in English and Japanese. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of this powerful body of work that documented the effects of the mercury poisoning of the Japanese city Minamata. Includes 12 laid in loose plates that measure 11.75" wide and 16" tall, a loose photographer chronology and housed in a photographically illustrated cardstock folder. The plates are in very good plus condition with some creasing/bumping to the blank corners but with no impact on the images and in a near fine cardstock folder that has some minor wear to the top right corner and some other minor wear. A very nice set.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Henry Holt & Co. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket issued. 1st/4th printing.

New York: Alskog/Holt Rinehart Winston, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 190 pages, b&w photographs by Gene Smith. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. This is a seminal photography book by the wonderful documentary photographer W. Eugene Smith and his wife Aileen M. Smith, showing incredible bravery in which the Smith's risk their own life after W. Eugene Smith is physically beaten. Also, this is the first photography book to examine the toxic affect on human beings of toxics in the water system. Record # 351237