Portrait of Myself
by Bourke-White, Margaret
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/good. 383 pages: many black-and-white illustrations; 22 cm. Black and lavender cover with white spine title and black author's facsimile signature on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket, in mylar cover. "Book Club Edition" -- on dust jacket flap. Memoir by American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) covering her career in commercial photography and photojournalism, as well as her battle with Parkinson's disease. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slight sunning along page edges; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: closed 9-cm. tear along front joint and across part of front section; creasing in lower part of front section; minor loss at tail of spine; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge at front flap; edges rubbed; clean.
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Details
- Seller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 010468
- Title
- Portrait of Myself
- Author
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1963
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.