A Camera in Quathlamba. Photographing the Drakensberg
by Pearse, Malcolm L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0869782029
- ISBN 13
- 9780869782026
- Seller
-
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1980) 0869782029. Folio; original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper board; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 224, incl. index; monochrome photographs. Dustwrapper quite edgeworn and foxed to reverse side; spine cocked; a little shelf-rubbed; earlier owner's name scored out on front free endpaper; a little light foxing. Good, in a modest dustwrapper. "One of South Africa's leading exponents of colour photography, Malcolm Pearse, has decided in this book to put colour behind him, and to go for black and white. ... Landscape photography is never easy, but somehow he has managed to capture on film those indefinable qualities that almost make the mountains breathe." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12640
- Title
- A Camera in Quathlamba. Photographing the Drakensberg
- Author
- Pearse, Malcolm L
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0869782029
- ISBN 13
- 9780869782026
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1980) 0869782029
- Place of Publication
- South Africa
- This edition first published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Drakensberg. KwaZulu-Natal. Mountain ranges. Mountaineering. Photography Natal
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natal;
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About the Seller
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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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....
- Gilt
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...