The Daguerreotype: A Sesquicentennial Celebration by Wood, John - 1989

VG oversize HC, PERFECT CONDITION except for being EX-LIBR, expedited and international shipping not available--DAGUERREOTYPE

Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press. Very Good/Good. (1989). First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 4to., 141 pp., 100 plates, DJ sun faded .

Univ of Iowa Pr, 5/31/1989 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Very Good. 1.1000 10.6000 9.1000.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1989. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 141 pp.+plates, Spine of dust jacket faded, as usual. .

University of Iowa Press, 1991. Hard Cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket is lightly bumped at top edge, has a white sticker on back, and is contained in a protective plastic jacket. Top corner of front flap is clipped. Spine is cocked, but binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1989. Hardcover. VG+/VG (light scuffs & wear to cloth boards. dustjacket has rub to spine edge, edge-wear; spine sunned green). black cloth boards w/ silver stamped printed spine. 141 pgs w/ 100 color & bw plates. glossy tan illustrated dustjacket w/ white, blacking printing. This volume of nine scholarly essays, illustrated with over 100 previously unpublished daguerreotypes (34 in color), is essentially an appreciation, and while a general reader might savor the beauty of the images, the text is specialized, assuming a knowledge of both photographic theory and history. A professor at McNeese State University in Iowa, Wood bemoans the daguerreotype's fate as a mere precursor to photography and argues for its status as serious art. Other essayists take up topics such as the contributions to the daguerreotype of American photographers Josiah Johnson Hawes and Albert Sands Southworth and the initial ambivalence of Americans (an early writer called the… Read More

Twin Palms Publishers.
FIRST EDITION.
unpaginated, fine in black cloth in pictorial dust jacket (with pink belly band dj present and intact). Lavishly illustrated in duotone photographs of female nudes, primarily from the 1920s. A classic.

University of Iowa Press, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 10x9x1.

University of Iowa Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0877452245 . Previous owner's neat name. Very light old tape marks to free endpapers, nothing alarming. Light foxing to edges and prelims. Jacket slightly sunned near spine area. ; B & W and colour photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; (xiv,142) pages .

Univ of Iowa Pr. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!