The Model. A Book on the Problems of Posing
by MORTENSEN, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
San Francisco: Camera Craft Publishing Company, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. San Francisco, Camera Craft Publishing Company, September 1940 (third printing)/ March 1937. Octavo, 262, [1] (publisher's advertisement) with a tinted frontispiece and numerous illustrations (most from photographs). Cloth a little rubbed and marked; extremities very slightly bumped; edges and endpapers slightly marked; leaves very slightly cockled; a very good copy. Provenance: Walter MacNeill, with his original gelatin silver bookplate and his signature and address (Springfield, 1941) in pencil on the front endpaper. The attractive scene depicted in the image may be his residence in the leafy Adelaide suburb. We have previously handled professional photographs with the blindstamp of Walter McNeill, 41 Rundle Street, Adelaide.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138394
- Title
- The Model. A Book on the Problems of Posing
- Author
- MORTENSEN, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Camera Craft Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Blindstamp
- A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...