Author: CAMERON, JOHN B
Title: Photography's Beginnings a Visual History : Featuring the Collection of Wm. B. Becker
Description: Boonsboro, MD: Rochester, Mich, 1990. First Edition (?). Hardcover. ISBN: 0826312489. B & W and Color; 10 3/4 x 9; 176 pages; COMPILER SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. Oblong shaped book is hard cover of blue cloth, with silver blind stamping on front and spine. Faint bumping to corners. DJ has slight rubbing; in a mylar cover. Illustrated with almost 200 years of photographs, mostly b/w or sepia. A few color ones, toward the end. Half-title page reads: FOR DR. FREEMAN WILNER WITH BEST WISHES ON HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY. W B. BECKER, MAY 1991. There is another gift inscription on FFEP, to same recipient, dated June 1991. Laid in is a playbill from a play directed by Becker, of 'Brady on Broadway'. The play was likely performed between 1990-93, as Harold Poling is listed as CEO of Ford Motor Co, a play sponsor, and those were the years he was CEO. Note on the playbill, with Becker's bio outlined in pink marker. Some of the sections are: Early Photography and Art History; Illustrations; Notes to the Illustrations; Primer on Processes. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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