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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First English Language Edition. First English Language Edition. 210 pages. 4to. Publisher's grey boards with red titles. Lacks the dust jacket as normal. Ex-library Polaroid Corporation with spine label, front bookplate, and rear library pocket. A few penciled library accession notes, otherwise bright and clean internally. The rear pocket is additionally stamped Dr. Land's Library, indicating he gave it to the Polaroid library. Cloth. From the library of Edwin Land, co-founder of Polaroid Corporation. A nice association. "Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other things. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in late 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less." (Wikipedia) A volume of the Focal Library.…