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Strong Man: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon
by Mainardi, Robert [editor]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1571781013
- ISBN 13
- 9781571781017
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco/Tulsa: Council Oak Books, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Square octavo hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 112 pages. Foreword by Jules Bacon, Mr. America 1943. Edited, with and introduction, by Robert Mainardi. Illustrated throughout with silver-print, black and white, sepia and color photographs. Stated first edition / first printing with full number line. Title page shows presentation to former owner, signed. Signature illegible, albeit we queried the owner of the collection after the purchase and he said it was the editor, Mainardi - last name is only an M with a long line and flourish at the end. See scan, selling as private gift inscription. A clean, fresh unmarked (but for gift inscription and signature) copy. Dust-jacket like new in Brodart cover. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021227
- Title
- Strong Man: Vintage Photos of a Masculine Icon
- Author
- Mainardi, Robert [editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1571781013
- ISBN 13
- 9781571781017
- Publisher
- Council Oak Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco/Tulsa
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Vintage Beefcake Photography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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