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Irving Penn
by Szarkowski, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g+ to vg
- ISBN 10
- 0870705628
- ISBN 13
- 9780870705625
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Small Folio. 216pp. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over cream cloth with gray lettering on cover and spine. Gray endpapers. Six frontispiece photographs. This remarkable work, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. It is magnificently illustrated with 156 photographic plates (including 21 in color), and 35 reference illustrations (of which 7 are in color). Dust-jacket lightly sunned along edges. Binding lightly rubbed. Dust-jacket and binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39435
- Title
- Irving Penn
- Author
- Szarkowski, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g+ to vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870705628
- ISBN 13
- 9780870705625
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- 20th-century American photographers, Fashion photography, b/w photography, First edition, Illustrated, Reference
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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