Published by Hill & Wang, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809033402 ISBN 13: 9780809033409
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear to cover boards and spine. Foxing visible to top of text block. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.9.
Published by Hill and Wang, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809033402 ISBN 13: 9780809033409
Seller: Stacks Abound Books, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 119 pp. Stated first American edition. Minor shelf and handling wear. Faint wear to edges of boards and gilt stamping. Gift inscription penned on ffep. Occasional underlining/annotations. Mild edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket; it is now enclosed in a (removable) protective mylar cover.
Published by Hill & Wang,, New York, 1981
Seller: Harry E Bagley Books Ltd, Fredericton, NB, Canada
First Edition
Paperbound. Condition: Fine. First American Edition. blue,pict. paper wraps, 119 p., illustrated, frontis. in color, (Daniel Boudinet, polaroid, 1979), b & w plates and text illustrations, Translation of: La chambre claire;Translated by Richard Howard. A search for the essence of photography which proposes no definative answers to the discussion of the relationship between photography and reality. A clean, bright copy of an important book. Size: 8 Vo.,
Published by Hill and Wang, New York, 1981
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 119pp, cream cloth spine over dark blue paper boards. Titles in gold on spine and front board. Binding tight, spine, straight, corners square. Contents of volume, both text block and images, are clean and unmarked. Light blue and white mottled dust jacket with titles in black and white on spine and front cover. Spine toned, some rubbing to spine. Black ink drawing of an old-fashioned camera on front panel. Large black and white photo of Barthes on back panel. Shelfwear to spine ends and front fore-corners of jacket, but colors remain vivid and jacket is crisp. Jacket intact, not price clipped. Laid-in errata slip with correct name of photographer. Laid-in review slip. Laid-in b&w publicity photo of Barthes. Lain-in promo sheet for book. An uncommon first edition of Barthes's influential work on photography. 8vo.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1982
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
First Edition
First UK Edition. Black cloth with cream spine and gilt title lettering. Front gutter cracking. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. Owner's name sticker on front endpaper. Short, closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. Circular (coffee?) stain to front panel. Book.
Published by Hill and Wang, New York., 1980
Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust jacket. First Edition. One colour illustration and black and white illustrations throughout. Book has a 2mm thick sunning line on top and bottom edge but otherwise fine. Dj is a little worn at extremities. Near fine. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".
Published by Hill and Wang, New York, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809033402 ISBN 13: 9780809033409
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. 119 pages. A posthumously released book by Barthes translated from the French by Richard Howard. An about very good copy in green wrappers with some foxing. Uncommon in this format.
First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by Hill and Wang,, NY:, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809033402 ISBN 13: 9780809033409
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Stated first American edition. Trace foxing on top edge, else very good in a very good (small stray pen mark on front panel) dust jacket. ; 119 pages.