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Fraprie, Frank, R. Editor. The American Annual of Photography 1940, #54 New York, American Photograpic Society, 1939, First Edition ed, Wraps, Condition: Very Good, Yellow and black wraps. Clean, solidly bound. Includes a review of decade in photography; enhancing print quality; photographic speed rating; homemade high power telephoto lens; tone composition; who's who in pictorial photography 1938-39; vertical illumination for opaque photomicography. 95 pages of black and white prints, including "Sunset" by Buck Hoy and Gulls of Monhegan by Thomas O. Shecker. Many advertisements. 322 pages + ads. tall 8vo (Photography, Journals, Vintage, Photography, Journals, Buck, Hoy, Thomas, O, Shecker, Photography, Black, &, White, Photography) Cat No. 900m. 20.50
Fraprie, Frank, R. Editor. The American Annual of Photography 1940, #54 New York, American Photograpic Society, 1939, First Edition ed, Wraps, Condition: Very Good, Yellow and black wraps. Clean, solidly bound. Includes a review of decade in photography; enhancing print quality; photographic speed rating; homemade high power telephoto lens; tone composition; who's who in pictorial photography 1938-39; vertical illumination for opaque photomicography. 95 pages of black and white prints, including "Sunset" by Buck Hoy and Gulls of Monhegan by Thomas O. Shecker. Many advertisements. 322 pages + ads. tall 8vo (Photography, Journals, Vintage, Photography, Journals, Buck, Hoy, Thomas, O, Shecker, Photography, Black, &, White, Photography) Cat No. 900m. 20.50
Fraprie, Frank, R. Editor. The American Annual of Photography 1940, #54 New York, American Photograpic Society, 1939, First Edition ed, Wraps, Condition: Very Good, Yellow and black wraps. Clean, solidly bound. Includes a review of decade in photography; enhancing print quality; photographic speed rating; homemade high power telephoto lens; tone composition; who's who in pictorial photography 1938-39; vertical illumination for opaque photomicography. 95 pages of black and white prints, including "Sunset" by Buck Hoy and Gulls of Monhegan by Thomas O. Shecker. Many advertisements. 322 pages + ads. tall 8vo (Photography, Journals, Vintage, Photography, Journals, Buck, Hoy, Thomas, O, Shecker, Photography, Black, &, White, Photography) Cat No. 900m. 20.50
Putnam, George Palmer. Wide Margins: A Publisher's Autobiography New York, Harcourt Brace, 1942, First Edition ed, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good/Very Good, An unconventional memoir of a publisher who didn't believe in the arm-chair theory of book publishing. In the 1920's he publishd The Mirrrors of Washington, the first of political backstage books, which fathered the newspaper columnists & radion commentators of today. He battled censorship & most of all made the Americans conscious of the margins of the world by publishing for such adventurous spirits as: Rockwell Kent, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, William Beebe. He practiced what he published by exploring for himself the far North. Blue cloth boards & spine, red title panel to spine. DJ not price clipped, black with orange lettering. Corners of flaps clipped, edgewear, 1/2 closed tear to upper edge, rear upper edge, creased 1 inch closed tear. Mild soil, picture of the Putnams to rear. Very clean text, solidly bound. First Ed. In mylar wraps. tall 8 vo, 351 pages (First, Edition, Vintage, Books, Putnam, Publishing, House, Publish, Empires, Publishers, Autobiography, Of, A, Publishing, House, George, Putnam) Cat No. 901m. 24.50
Putnam, George Palmer. Wide Margins: A Publisher's Autobiography New York, Harcourt Brace, 1942, First Edition ed, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good/Very Good, An unconventional memoir of a publisher who didn't believe in the arm-chair theory of book publishing. In the 1920's he publishd The Mirrrors of Washington, the first of political backstage books, which fathered the newspaper columnists & radion commentators of today. He battled censorship & most of all made the Americans conscious of the margins of the world by publishing for such adventurous spirits as: Rockwell Kent, Charles A. Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, William Beebe. He practiced what he published by exploring for himself the far North. Blue cloth boards & spine, red title panel to spine. DJ not price clipped, black with orange lettering. Corners of flaps clipped, edgewear, 1/2 closed tear to upper edge, rear upper edge, creased 1 inch closed tear. Mild soil, picture of the Putnams to rear. Very clean text, solidly bound. First Ed. In mylar wraps. tall 8 vo, 351 pages (First, Edition, Vintage, Books, Putnam, Publishing, House, Publish, Empires, Publishers, Autobiography, Of, A, Publishing, House, George, Putnam) Cat No. 901m. 24.50

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