Masterpieces of Medical Photography: Selections from the Burns Archive
Publisher: Pasadena, California: Twelvetrees Press, 1987
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 094264221X
Condition: Fine / Very Good
Item #: 112097
$350.00
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine red cloth-covered boards, with printed dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Joel-Peter Witkin. Captions and Afterword by Stanley B. Burns, M.D. Unpaginated, with 40 four-color plates on uncoated paper. 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches. This first edition was limited to 3000 hardbound copies. Out of print. Scarce.
Condition
Fine in Very Good dust jacket (3-3/4 inch vertical cut on front panel (taped on the reverse), faint sunning to the edges and slight areas of delamination to the front and rear panels of jacket, endemic to the title).
Description
Selection of photographs from the Burns Archive, which contains over 700,000 vintage prints, including the world's largest collection of early medical photographs.
