Time Exposure: the Autobiography of William Henry Jackson [Signed Copy]
by JACKSON, William Henry
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1940). First Edition. Autographed by W.H. Jackson on front endpaper. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; brown top-stain; dustjacket; xii,341pp; frontispiece and 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, clean, Near Fine copy, with top-stain deep and even. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap); somewhat rubbed and edgeworn with a single paper repair to verso and sunning to spine panel and folds; just Very Good.
Memoir of the important frontier photographer and painter, whose photographs taken as a member of the 1870 Hayden Expedition were some of the earliest documentation of the region now encompassed by Yellowstone National Park. Jackson (1843-1942) was nearly one hundred years old at time his autobiography was published, imposing a natural limit to the number of autographed copies available.
Memoir of the important frontier photographer and painter, whose photographs taken as a member of the 1870 Hayden Expedition were some of the earliest documentation of the region now encompassed by Yellowstone National Park. Jackson (1843-1942) was nearly one hundred years old at time his autobiography was published, imposing a natural limit to the number of autographed copies available.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60476
- Title
- Time Exposure: the Autobiography of William Henry Jackson [Signed Copy]
- Author
- JACKSON, William Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1940)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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