On Reading
by Kertesz, Andre
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 067052459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670524594
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-360: Grossman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Grossman Publishers, New York, NY, 1971. 63 pgs. Illustrated with Sixty-six duotone photographs without text, a list of the photographs at the rear. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Examples of the celebrated, European photographer's work study the interaction between individuals and the printed word. Kertesz was a fine photographer and this book focuses on one of his favorite subjectspeople all over the world engaged in reading: advertisements, comics, great literature; it doesn't matter. When people are reading, they are "elsewhere." Kertesz captures people engaged in one of the most important pastimes in the world...one that will never go out of style. His nuanced black and white photos tell a thousand stories. His camera was his voice and we are the richer for it. EB; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 63 pages .
Synopsis
Reprint. Originally published: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1982.
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67047
- Title
- On Reading
- Author
- Kertesz, Andre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 067052459X
- ISBN 13
- 9780670524594
- Publisher
- Grossman
- Place of Publication
- E-360
- Date Published
- 1971
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