Robert Taft Intro (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Brown cloth, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Pictorial dust jacket VG with mild tanning, small ink marks to portions of front panel, 1" long shallow chip along top front panel edge, now in mylar. 1st thus. 74-pp. intro., 340 pp. plates including 4,000+ photographs. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 8 x 11 in. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Muybridge's B&W photos. Condition is NEAR FINE ; like new on all points. Photography. RGR.

LACKS D/W, quarto hardcover (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.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full blue cloth boards. Edge wear, small tears, and dampstains to dust jacket. Copyright is 1955, but this is a later printing with an ISBN. 8"w x 11"h. 195 pages on heavy, glossy paper. Besides a very short introduction the entire book is the stop-motion photos of Muybridge, depicting figures, usually nude, doing all sorts of activities; about 12 photos per oversize page, usually in a two-page layout. Includes models: men, women, girls, boys, Running, Walking, Lifting, Heaving, Broad Jump, Javelin, Throwing, Crawling, Stooping, Dancing, Pirouetting, Turning, Feeding Dog, Sitting, Jumping, Hopping, Carrying, Swinging a Pick Axe,a Basin, Wrestling, Boxing etc. Keywords: Anatomical Studies, Sports, Action, Movement, Frames, Walking, Nudes, Naked, Artists, Model, Running, Walking, Lifting, Heaving, Broad Jump, Javelin, Throwing, Girls, Crawling, Stooping, Boy, Dancing, Pirouetting, Turning, Feeding Dog, Sitting, Jumping, Hopping, Carrying, Swinging, Pick Axe, Basin, Wrestling, Boxing. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine; illustrated dust jacket; pp. xvii, followed by 195 b/w photo-illustrated plates (containing 4789 high-speed photographs of human motion, illustrating 163 different types of action). First published by Dover in 1955. This is a nice later printing. An excellent copy in lightly worn DJ.…