Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera
by HORAN, James D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown Publishers, 1955. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth spine and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xix, 244pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with several large edge chips. Tight, nice first edition, described by Robert W. Johannsen as "A praiseworthy attempt to present a complete biography of Brady, in spite of a lack of evidence; includes many Brady photographs not previously available to scholars." Bookplate on front pastedown of noted medical history collector Ralph C. Gordon. NEVINS II, 65.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38892
- Title
- Mathew Brady: Historian with a Camera
- Author
- HORAN, James D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Photography; Civil War;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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