Publisher:
G.P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press
Published:
1925
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17989043465
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Good (Boards have light edgewear with some smudging/scuffing; textblock edges are toned and smudged; rear hinge is cracked; textblock is cracked; interior has light toning with occasional light smudging or foxing. ) Blue boards with gilt lettering; xx, 362 pp.; 4 unnumbered leaves of plates; illustrations, maps. "Presents the migration of the Baktyari tribe across terrible mountains and ghastly rivers of Persia."--Foreword.
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Used-very good. Sm 8vo; 362pp. 'With sixty-four illustrations from photographs by Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack. ' A square tight copy with unmarked text. Owner inscription on 2nd blank. Blue cloth covers lightly scuffed, spine moderately faded, gilt spine lettering still quite legible. Book now protected in removable mylar cover.
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Good. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1925. 362 pgs. Frontispiece. Illustrated with sixty-four illustrations from photographs by Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Based on the silent documentary film, released the same year. A landmark enthographic documentary, Cooper and photographer Ernest Schoedsack accompanied the Bakhtiari, a tribe of 50, 000 nomads on their hazardous annual journey to bring their herds to pasture. The two collaborated on a number of silent documentaries before jointly writing, producing, and directing "King Kong" in 1933. With the immediate success of "King Kong, " Cooper became a Vice President of RKO Pictures. He went on to produce many notable films, as well as the first Cinerama presentation. In 1952 he was awarded a special Academy Award for lifetime achievement EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 362 pages.
Publisher:
G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press
Published:
1925
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17593934507
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Foreword by William Beebe. Sixty-four illustrations from photographs by Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack. Ink owner inscriptions on front pastedown and front flyleaf, a little foxing else a bright, near fine copy in rubbed very good dust jacket with publisher's cancel label affixed to front flap, printing a blurb by Kermit Roosevelt, and with small nicks and a couple of early internal mends. Cooper and Schoedsack went on to collaborate on the writing, producing, and directing of the 1933 blockbuster film, *King Kong. * Cooper here presents the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe across the terrible mountains and ghastly rivers of Persia. The film, released in 1925, as *Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, * follows the journey of the Bakhtiari, a poor nomadic tribe in Iran, as they herd their livestock up snow-covered mountain passes, to get to the grazing lands on the other side of the mountains before their animals die from starvation. Very scarce.