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Harry N. Abrams, 1987-01-01. hardcover. Good. 9x1x11.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000. 167 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front cover slightly sunned along the foreedge. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Time-lapse photography. "Inventor of the strobe flash and a pioneer of stop-action photography, Edgerton literally stops time in these remarkable photographs. A splashing milk drop, arrested with high-speed film and strobe, looks exactly like a king's crown. A golfer, shot at 100 flashes per second, swings his driver into an Archimedian spiral. Pictures of fencers, tennis players, rope-skippers and ping-pong enthusiasts, all caught in action sequences, call to mind futurist paintings with their frantic sequences of motion. Edgerton's inventions for underwater photography have yielded such marvels as his photo of the top of a lava mountain thousands of feet below the ocean's surface. His picture of Stonehenge, taken from a… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0810915146 . Edgerton was a pioneer in high speed photography and this is the first book of his photograph's since his book "Flash" which was published in 1939, "Contains 138 b&w photos (many are full page) and 22 color plates, including some double page fold-outs. Original gray cloth publisher's covers with white spine lettering. The book is in very nice condition with the exception of a nick to the cloth on the edge of the rear cover; there are no markings to the inside or the outside and no previous owner names or bookplates. The dust jacket is also in nice condition except that the jacket is worn through at the rear fold over. These defects reduce our estimate of condition to Good overall. ; Color & B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 167 pages .

Harry N. Abrams. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover w/Jacket. 0810915146 . Book is in excellent, possibly unread condition with an excellent dust jacket that is protected by a plastic sleeve. Please See Photographs; 1st Edition - 3rd Printing; 9.5 X 1 X 11.75 inches; 167 pages .

New York: Abrams, 1987. First. hardcover. near fine/fine. Harold Edgerton. Foreword by Harold Edgerton. Text by Estelle Jussim. Edited by Gus Kayafas. With 138 illustrations, including 22 plates in full color. 168 pages, 4to, gray cloth, dust wrapper. New York: Abrams, (1987). First edition. Top edge is just a bit faded, still a near fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/>

NY: Harry N Abrams, 1987. Large quarto volume in gray silk cloth covered boards. 138 illustrations, including 22 plates in full color (including some double page fold-outs). [No International shipping]. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Harry N Abrams 2000. Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

New York.: Harry N. Abrams. , 1988.. Stated first edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new.. 4to.. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Harry N. Abrams, 1987-09-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

1987. Harry Abrams. New York. First edition. 1987. Large 4to hardback with DW. Filled with b/w and colour plates, some fold-outs. A lovely copy in wrapper with very slight signs of use.