Assignment: Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution (Series in Contemporary Photography) by Editor-Carolyn Wakeman; Editor-Ken Light; Photographer-Jack Birns; Foreword-Orville Schell - 2003-10-01

University of California Press, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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University of California Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight and bright condition, very minor sunning to otherwise near new crisp dust jacket. Size: 9.25x13.5 inches, 144pp., illus.

Berkeley: University of California, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Photography by Jack Birns. Foreward by Orville Schell. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Strikingly illustrated with roughly 100 previously unpublished black and white photographs. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. 130 pages.

University of California Press. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2003.

University of California Press, 2003-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

University of California Press, 2003. First edition (2003.) Hardcover with dust jacket. Folio with 130 pages. Signed by author/photographer on the half title page, " To Our Darling Friend Mildred, Whom we love for her wit and determination. So with warm regards and love from Jack and Harriet Birns February 25, 2004." The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior clean and tight. Pictures available upon request. Profusely illustrated. "Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from Life magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war." White-Red spine/ Yellow text. #033812. Signed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.… Read More

University of California Press, 2003. Book. Illus. by Jack Birns. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2003, Gray cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, 144 page book. This copy is signed and dated in the year of publication only by Jack Birns ( 1922 - 2008 ) on the first title page. An award-winning photographer and foreign correspondent for Life Magazine . Illustrated with Birns's famous black & white images in China most are full page plates . Condition : Near Fine with small corner bumps. .