Description: Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB overall condition book which is a classic memoir written by award-winning American MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE, who photographed the first cover of Life magazine in 1936 and was the last to photograph MAHATMA GANDHI hours before his assassination--the book is a collectible STATED FIRST PRINTING and a HARDCOVER copy. This book is in SUPERB overall condition and has slight vertical abrasions on the centers of the boards where the dustjacket was removed, slight dings on the spine and opening tips and just slight shelfwear and slight evidence of gentle browsing but NO other significant imperfections! The book is titled Portrait of Myself and it was written by MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE; it was published by Simon and Schuster in 1963 and is a STATED 1st PRINTING copy.For more than thirty years, Margaret Bourke-White had made photographic history as the first photographer to see the artistic and storytelling possibilities in American industry, as the first to write social criticism with a lens, and as the most distinguished and venturesome foreign correspondent-with-a camera to report wars, politics and social and political revolution on three continents. In the world of pictures, of magazines, of books, she won fame and fortune.Here are the tales of her struggles to master her art and craft, of photographing Stalin, Gandhi and many other notables, of being torpedoed off North Africa while reporting World War II, of flying combat missions, of photographing the dread murder camps of Nazi Germany, of touring Tobacco Road to produce the book You Have Seen Their Faces with Erskine Caldwell (whom she later married), of adventures and wonderful picture-taking in the mines of South Africa, in the frozen North, in war-torn Korea.And then, tragically, this beautiful and indomitably vigorous woman was stricken by Parkinson's disease. This story of Miss Bourke-White's winning battle with Parkinsons was the subject first of a long report in Life Magazine and then of a thrilling documentary television film which was seen throughout the nation.A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!Thanks for looking, and good luck if you're bidding! Also be sure to check out all of my other great books currently listed on ebay auctions--I can combine shipping for multiple purchases!
Price: 25.99 USD
Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-03-20T01:30:53.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.5 USD
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Book Title: Portrait of Myself
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Subject: Photography
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1963
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Margaret Bourke-White
Features: 1st Edition
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subjects: Memoir
Number of Pages: 383 Pages
