- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 10866
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very good in slt. marked dj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Museum of Modern Art,
- Place: New York:
- Date published: 1971.
Book Description
New York:: Museum of Modern Art,. 1971.. Hardcover. Very good in slt. marked dj. 4to oblong, 189 pp, b&w plates. Beige cloth cover with grey title on front and spine. Slightly ruffled dj. Photographic studies of Ossining, NY, Alabama, Bethlehem/Easton/Phillipsburg Pennsylvania, Cuba, West Virginia & New York City in the 1930's. Very architectural quality to his strong black & white photographs.
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DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
sl. : slight
4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
