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KARSH PORTRAITS.
by Karsh, Yousuf
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Cadyville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, (1976)., (1976).. Good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in red cloth titled in silver on the spine, in a photographically illustrated price-clipped dust wrapper. The corners of the covers are bumped. The corners of the dust jacket and head & tail of its spine are chipped. There is lighter chipping to the edges with a tear to the bottom edge of the jacket's front panel. 202, [2] pages, profusely illustrated with black & white photographic plates. The top corners of several pages are bumped. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First American edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97851
- Title
- KARSH PORTRAITS.
- Author
- Karsh, Yousuf
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, (1976).
- Date Published
- (1976).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- PHOTOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATED; YOUSUF KARSH; KARSH PORTRAITS; CANADIAN PHOTOGRAPHER; CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHS; BLACK AND WHITE PLATES; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST AMERICAN EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATIONS; WINSTON CHURCHILL; ERNEST HEMINGWA
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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