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The BEKEN File.**

by BEKEN**, KEITH:

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0906781027
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9780906781029
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UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour scenic photographic illustrated upper wrap with blue+red lettering,rear wrap white text,publisher's advert; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge sporadically foxed/spotted,but generally clean,fore-edge clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,blue cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip which is minisculely bumped to both head+foot,with reciprocal creasing,and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-190pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,author introduction,20 chapters,profuse full+part-page colour+b/w (majority) photographs throughout the text and the book,some b/w diagrams,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table. 'My vivid memories are all of the sea.' Keith Beken,sailing photographer extraordinary,never spoke a truer word.The sea lives, pounds and glistens through this biography of a life spent on it and beside it,photographing boats of every description - the great yachts of the past,elegant liners, naval vessels,power boats,tall ships,the racing yachts of today - these boats,and the people who sailed them,live in these pages.All the great sailing events of a century - Edward VII and the German Kaiser racing against each other in their mighty yachts, George V racing Britannia in the Big Time,the America's Cup,Uffa Foxx's new dinghy designs after the war,transatlantic and transoceanic races,Tall Ships meetings,Cowes Weeks and Round the Island races - all are recaptured here in vivid phrase and living picture. Keith Beken's humorous,vigorous personality,his lively approach to every situation - marooned in the Shetland Islands in the early days of the war,failing to get pictures of Olympic sailing events in Italy - convey his enthusiasm on every page - action,sparkle,excitement abound. Beken of Cowes is not just Keith Beken himself - it's a family tradition now three generations strong - innovators and inventors in photography at sea.Part of the fascination of 'The Beken File' lies in the story of the camera problems faced and solved,from the first sea-going camera built in their chemist's shop last century onwards. His advice on how to get the best camera shots of racing yachts and speed boats comes from expert knowledge of how the boats perform, how the sea behaves,and how the camera reacts - a unique combination of skills which have earned Keith Beken his royal warrant as photographer to HRH Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,and his renown as the greatest sailing photographer of them all. There is a delight of many kinds for the readers of this book - delight for the eye in the wonderful photographs; delight in the exuberant and vivid peronality of the author, and pleasures and delight in sharing the adventures of a life lived to the full. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight of this item,for correct and possibly,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!



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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The BEKEN File.**
Author
BEKEN**, KEITH:
Illustrator
illus with contemporary b/w+colour photographs and b/w diagrams.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0906781027
ISBN 13
9780906781029
Publisher
UK.AYLESBURY,BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.CHANNEL PRESS,1980.
Place of Publication
Aylesbury
This edition first published
1980
Keywords
q52.NAUTICAL.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0906781027.Nautical photography_photographers_Beken of Cowes.Photography_photographs_yachts_liners_naval vessel_power boats_tall ships_racing Yachts.America's Cup_yachting_racing.Tall Ships Races.Cowes Week.
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