How Photography Works by Walls, H. J - 1959

New York: Macmillan, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Macmillan, 1959. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with silver lettering on cover and spine. No fraying, rubbing or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with small previous owner name and date neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper. Liberally illustrated with drawings and diagrams. 352 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, has slight edge wear, very small edge chips and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This book explains the whole of traditional photography to the curious and intelligent reader by taking him on an informative and entertaining tour through more than one region of contemporary science--optics, chemistry, visual perception--following in the tracks of the black-and-white as well as the color image. Author is a graduate of Edinburgh University (B.Sc. and Ph.D.) who did post-graduate work in physical chemistry also at Munich and Bristol..