INDIA. Designed and Photographed by Roloff Beny with 136 plates in color, 17 decorative motifs. Essay by Aubrey Menen.
by Menen, Aubrey; and Beny, Roloff
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1969)., (1969).. Very good. - Quarto, 14 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in cream buckram with a gilt design on the front cover and titled in gilt on the spine with pictorial endpapers. The book is laid into pictorial dust wrapper. The corners of the covers are bumped. The edges of the dust jacket are very slightly chipped and creased. 236 pages illustrated with 136 color plates including many that are tipped-in. The corners of the pages are bumped and there is soiling to the front of the bottom edge. Very good.
First edition.
"For Roloff Beny, India is an experience on the highest spiritual level. During travels covering some twenty thousand miles on the ground, he has sought to evoke this impression with his incomparable photographs of the astounding terrain, the temples and monuments, the diverse population of this vast country." - from the dust wrapper copy.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 98613
- Title
- INDIA. Designed and Photographed by Roloff Beny with 136 plates in color, 17 decorative motifs. Essay by Aubrey Menen.
- Author
- Menen, Aubrey; and Beny, Roloff
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1969).
- Date Published
- (1969).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- TRAVEL; EXPLORATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; INDIA; DESIGNED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY ROLOFF BENY; ESSAY BY AUBRAY MENEN; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; PLATES; 1ST EDITION; FIRST EDITION; TEMPLES; MONUMENTS.
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- Buckram
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...