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	CONVERSE, GORDON N., AND MATHENY, R. NORMAN, AND MAIN, PETER, AND FALKENBERG, BARTH All Mankind: Photographs Boston, Christian Science Publishing Society. 1983. (ISBN: 0875101453) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Oblong. Collectible, [286] pp. illus.; 25 x 32 cm. SIGNED by all four photographers under their names on the title page. An attractive copy. Boards in excellent condition, clean edges. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Photojournalism from The Christian Science Monitor, published on the 75th anniversary of the newspaper. Fine/Fine. SIGNED. USD 2000.00 [Appr.: EURO 1334.25 \| £UK 1202 \| JP¥ 176515] Book number: 021844 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	EDGERTON, HAROLD E., AND KILLIAN, JAMES R., JR. Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 1984, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0262550105) Soft Cover , Oblong. 177 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio.; 24 x 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wrapss, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Very Good. USD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7061] Book number: 022688 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FREEDMAN, RUSSELL Lincoln: A Photobiography New York, Clarion Books. 1987. (ISBN: 0395518482) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, 20th printing. 150 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. "A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president. A Newberry Medal Book. / Russell Freedman is the author of nearly 50 books for young people. His work includes, for Clarion, the Newbery Medal book Lincoln: A Photobiography, the Newbery Honor book Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, and more recently, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, which received both a Newbery Honor and the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 002021 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	GERNSHEIM, HELMUT, AND GERNSHEIM, ALISON The Recording Eye: A Hundred Years of Great Events as Seen by the Camera, 1839-1939 New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1960, First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, ix, 254 pp. illus. ports.; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Browning. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap, with light edgewear (taped), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 026980 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KISMARIC, SUSAN (CURATED BY) American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993 New York, Museum of Modern Art. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0870701576) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, Cloth, 208 pp. chiefly illus. ports. biblio.; 28 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from October 6, 1994 to January 3, 1995. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Fine/Fine. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 035895 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	POCOCK, PHILIP J. (INTRODUCTION BY) Exposition Internationale de Photographie: Regards sur La Terre des Hommes = International Exhibition of Photography: The Camera as Witness Montréal, Expo 67. 1967, First Edition. Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 1 vol. (unpaged), illus.; 25 x 21 cm. Text in English and French. VG/Très bon etat. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Browning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "The 500 photographs in this exhibition were taken in 81 countries by 272 photographers living in 49 lands.". Very Good. USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 021215 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PRODGER, PHILLIP Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement New York and Oxford, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in association with Oxford University Press. 2003. (ISBN: 0195149645) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, xiii, 310 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. AS NEW. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Fine. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 015296 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HALPRIN, SARA; FRANTZ, MARGE (FOREWORD BY) Seema's Show: A Life on the Left Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press. 2005. (ISBN: 082633847X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 246 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. Tight, clean text. Stray pen mark/foreedge. Light edgewear to wraps. Another copy available. A leftwing activist affiliated with the great California art-photographers Adams, Weston, and Cunningham. "At seventeen Seema Aissen got her first job drying prints in a photo-finishing lab in Boston and joined the newly-founded Young Communist League; at thirty-three she was hired by Ansel Adams to run his darkroom in Yosemite; at thirty-seven she married the writer Jack Weatherwax and devoted herself to supporting his work; widowed at seventy-nine she began a new life; at ninety-five she had her first photographic exhibit. Sara Halprin began recording interviews with Seema in 1986 and took the title and narrative frame for this book from that first show. Seema's Show follows Seema's life from her birth in 1905 to radical Jewish parents in Czarist Russia, emigration to England, then Boston and Los Angeles, where she joined the Film and Photo League, began her lifelong work for racial justice, and formed enduring friendships with artists and political activists including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Woody Guthrie. In 1984 Seema moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she became a central figure in progressive culture and began, in 2000, to show her own work. / Sara Halprin was a writer, therapist, and teacher who lived in Portland, Oregon." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 015056 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HALPRIN, SARA; FRANTZ, MARGE (FOREWORD BY) Seema's Show: A Life on the Left Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press. 2005, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 082633847X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xii, 246 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Authorial signature & dedication/title page, otherwise as new. A leftwing activist affiliated with the great California art-photographers Adams, Weston, and Cunningham. "At seventeen Seema Aissen got her first job drying prints in a photo-finishing lab in Boston and joined the newly-founded Young Communist League; at thirty-three she was hired by Ansel Adams to run his darkroom in Yosemite; at thirty-seven she married the writer Jack Weatherwax and devoted herself to supporting his work; widowed at seventy-nine she began a new life; at ninety-five she had her first photographic exhibit. Sara Halprin began recording interviews with Seema in 1986 and took the title and narrative frame for this book from that first show. Seema's Show follows Seema's life from her birth in 1905 to radical Jewish parents in Czarist Russia, emigration to England, then Boston and Los Angeles, where she joined the Film and Photo League, began her lifelong work for racial justice, and formed enduring friendships with artists and political activists including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Woody Guthrie. In 1984 Seema moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she became a central figure in progressive culture and began, in 2000, to show her own work. / Sara Halprin was a writer, therapist, and teacher who lived in Portland, Oregon." - Publisher. Fine. SIGNED. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 026192 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SOLNIT, REBECCA River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. 2004, 3rd printing. (ISBN: 0142004103) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 305 pp. illus. biblio. index; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. "The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge - who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically - becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post-Civil War California led directly to the two industries - Hollywood and Silicon Valley - that have most powerfully defined contemporary society. / Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 010436 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SOLNIT, REBECCA River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. 2004, 3rd printing. (ISBN: 0142004103) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 305 pp. illus. biblio. index; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Remainder mark/tail edge. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. "The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge - who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically - becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post-Civil War California led directly to the two industries - Hollywood and Silicon Valley - that have most powerfully defined contemporary society. / Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 015971 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STEICHEN, EDWARD A Life in Photography New York, Museum of Modern Art; Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1963. (ISBN: 0385055714) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, Cloth, (unpaged), 249 illus. (incl. ports.); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. One word underlined at the back. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a sticker shadow/front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Very Good. USD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7061] Book number: 014208 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SZARKOWSKI, JOHN (EDITED BY) From the Picture Press New York, Museum of Modern Art. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 087070334X) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 95 pp. chiefly illus.; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps curling, age toning. An exhibition of photojournalism developed with the support of the New York Daily News; post-war American news photography. Introductory essay by Szarkowski. Vintage MoMA catalogue. Very Good. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 036575 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.

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	CONVERSE, GORDON N., AND MATHENY, R. NORMAN, AND MAIN, PETER, AND FALKENBERG, BARTH All Mankind: Photographs Boston, Christian Science Publishing Society. 1983. (ISBN: 0875101453) Hard Cover with dust jacket, Oblong. Collectible, [286] pp. illus.; 25 x 32 cm. SIGNED by all four photographers under their names on the title page. An attractive copy. Boards in excellent condition, clean edges. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Photojournalism from The Christian Science Monitor, published on the 75th anniversary of the newspaper. Fine/Fine. SIGNED. USD 2000.00 [Appr.: EURO 1334.25 \| £UK 1202 \| JP¥ 176515] Book number: 021844 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	EDGERTON, HAROLD E., AND KILLIAN, JAMES R., JR. Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. 1984, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0262550105) Soft Cover , Oblong. 177 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio.; 24 x 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wrapss, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Very Good. USD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7061] Book number: 022688 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	FREEDMAN, RUSSELL Lincoln: A Photobiography New York, Clarion Books. 1987. (ISBN: 0395518482) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, 20th printing. 150 pp. illus. biblio. index; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Photographs and text trace the life of the Civil War President. "A description of the boyhood, marriage, and young professional life of Abraham Lincoln includes his presidential years and also reflects on the latest scholarly thoughts about our Civil War president. A Newberry Medal Book. / Russell Freedman is the author of nearly 50 books for young people. His work includes, for Clarion, the Newbery Medal book Lincoln: A Photobiography, the Newbery Honor book Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, and more recently, The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, which received both a Newbery Honor and the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. Mr. Freedman lives in New York City." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 002021 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	GERNSHEIM, HELMUT, AND GERNSHEIM, ALISON The Recording Eye: A Hundred Years of Great Events as Seen by the Camera, 1839-1939 New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1960, First U.S. Edition. Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, gilt, ix, 254 pp. illus. ports.; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Browning. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap, with light edgewear (taped), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 026980 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	KISMARIC, SUSAN (CURATED BY) American Politicians: Photographs from 1843 to 1993 New York, Museum of Modern Art. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0870701576) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, Cloth, 208 pp. chiefly illus. ports. biblio.; 28 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from October 6, 1994 to January 3, 1995. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Fine/Fine. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 035895 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	POCOCK, PHILIP J. (INTRODUCTION BY) Exposition Internationale de Photographie: Regards sur La Terre des Hommes = International Exhibition of Photography: The Camera as Witness Montréal, Expo 67. 1967, First Edition. Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 1 vol. (unpaged), illus.; 25 x 21 cm. Text in English and French. VG/Très bon etat. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Browning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "The 500 photographs in this exhibition were taken in 81 countries by 272 photographers living in 49 lands.". Very Good. USD 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 40.25 \| £UK 36.25 \| JP¥ 5295] Book number: 021215 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	PRODGER, PHILLIP Time Stands Still: Muybridge and the Instantaneous Photography Movement New York and Oxford, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in association with Oxford University Press. 2003. (ISBN: 0195149645) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, xiii, 310 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio. index; 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. AS NEW. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Fine. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 015296 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HALPRIN, SARA; FRANTZ, MARGE (FOREWORD BY) Seema's Show: A Life on the Left Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press. 2005. (ISBN: 082633847X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 246 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. Tight, clean text. Stray pen mark/foreedge. Light edgewear to wraps. Another copy available. A leftwing activist affiliated with the great California art-photographers Adams, Weston, and Cunningham. "At seventeen Seema Aissen got her first job drying prints in a photo-finishing lab in Boston and joined the newly-founded Young Communist League; at thirty-three she was hired by Ansel Adams to run his darkroom in Yosemite; at thirty-seven she married the writer Jack Weatherwax and devoted herself to supporting his work; widowed at seventy-nine she began a new life; at ninety-five she had her first photographic exhibit. Sara Halprin began recording interviews with Seema in 1986 and took the title and narrative frame for this book from that first show. Seema's Show follows Seema's life from her birth in 1905 to radical Jewish parents in Czarist Russia, emigration to England, then Boston and Los Angeles, where she joined the Film and Photo League, began her lifelong work for racial justice, and formed enduring friendships with artists and political activists including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Woody Guthrie. In 1984 Seema moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she became a central figure in progressive culture and began, in 2000, to show her own work. / Sara Halprin was a writer, therapist, and teacher who lived in Portland, Oregon." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 015056 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HALPRIN, SARA; FRANTZ, MARGE (FOREWORD BY) Seema's Show: A Life on the Left Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press. 2005, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 082633847X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xii, 246 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Authorial signature & dedication/title page, otherwise as new. A leftwing activist affiliated with the great California art-photographers Adams, Weston, and Cunningham. "At seventeen Seema Aissen got her first job drying prints in a photo-finishing lab in Boston and joined the newly-founded Young Communist League; at thirty-three she was hired by Ansel Adams to run his darkroom in Yosemite; at thirty-seven she married the writer Jack Weatherwax and devoted herself to supporting his work; widowed at seventy-nine she began a new life; at ninety-five she had her first photographic exhibit. Sara Halprin began recording interviews with Seema in 1986 and took the title and narrative frame for this book from that first show. Seema's Show follows Seema's life from her birth in 1905 to radical Jewish parents in Czarist Russia, emigration to England, then Boston and Los Angeles, where she joined the Film and Photo League, began her lifelong work for racial justice, and formed enduring friendships with artists and political activists including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, and Woody Guthrie. In 1984 Seema moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she became a central figure in progressive culture and began, in 2000, to show her own work. / Sara Halprin was a writer, therapist, and teacher who lived in Portland, Oregon." - Publisher. Fine. SIGNED. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 026192 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SOLNIT, REBECCA River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. 2004, 3rd printing. (ISBN: 0142004103) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 305 pp. illus. biblio. index; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. "The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge - who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically - becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post-Civil War California led directly to the two industries - Hollywood and Silicon Valley - that have most powerfully defined contemporary society. / Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 010436 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SOLNIT, REBECCA River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. 2004, 3rd printing. (ISBN: 0142004103) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 305 pp. illus. biblio. index; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Remainder mark/tail edge. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. "The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge - who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically - becomes a lens for a larger story about the acceleration and industrialization of everyday life. Solnit shows how the peculiar freedoms and opportunities of post-Civil War California led directly to the two industries - Hollywood and Silicon Valley - that have most powerfully defined contemporary society. / Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award." - Publisher. Very Good. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 015971 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STEICHEN, EDWARD A Life in Photography New York, Museum of Modern Art; Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1963. (ISBN: 0385055714) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectible, Cloth, (unpaged), 249 illus. (incl. ports.); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. One word underlined at the back. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a sticker shadow/front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Very Good/Very Good. USD 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53.5 \| £UK 48.25 \| JP¥ 7061] Book number: 014208 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	SZARKOWSKI, JOHN (EDITED BY) From the Picture Press New York, Museum of Modern Art. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 087070334X) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 95 pp. chiefly illus.; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Wraps curling, age toning. An exhibition of photojournalism developed with the support of the New York Daily News; post-war American news photography. Introductory essay by Szarkowski. Vintage MoMA catalogue. Very Good. USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 \| £UK 42.25 \| JP¥ 6178] Book number: 036575 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.