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Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 80 pages. Summer 2002. A clean, tight issue. Contributions by Danny Lyon, Lucas Samaras, Charles Bowden, Flor Gardunos, Cheryl Finley, Vince Aletti, Mark Haworth-Boon,Olga Gourko, Atget, Herb Ritts, Paul Strand, Minior White and numerous others.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 80 pages. Summer 2003. Portfolios and Essays from Larry Towell, Vince Aletti and Andrea Modica, Robert Farris Thompson and Adriana Groisman, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Diana C. Stoll, and Fred Ritchin. A clean, tight issue.

Softcover. CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 60 pages illustrated in color. Scuba diving is fast becoming a sport for the elite, and hookah diving is not far behind. This book will show you how you can beat the high prices. The goal of this manual is to help the reader: 1. Avoid spending thousands in scuba diving equipment 2. Avoid the high costs of tank refills 3. Avoid the yearly tank inspection fees 4. Avoid expensive hydro testing 5. Extend bottom time 6. Lessen the size and weight of your diving gear 7. And save hundreds of Dollars by building your own hookah rig 8. Explore other means of diving using surface supplied air 9. Eliminate un-needed or redundant components 10. Build you own gear.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color painting of a young couple swimming in the ocean, art by Power O'Malley. Approx. 10 X 13".PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. In The Springboard in the Pond, Thomas van Leeuwen looks at a familiar hole--the domestic swimming pool--and discovers an icon indispensable to the reading of twentieth-century modernism. The books many illustrations--drawings, plans, and photographs--come from an unusual variety of sources, creating what is surely the most provocative visual archive of the swimming pool ever assembled.

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, T. Adler Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 127 b&w and 100 duotone illustrations. Designed by Tom Adler. Ron Church"s images of surfing's first organized contests-at once mundane and heroic-caught the sport in a time of change.

Hardcover. London, Carlton Books Ltd, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. An illustrated fashion history from the 1920s to the present. Chock full of pictures and information, cataloging our love affair with the swimsuit and beach life in general. This book covers the period from the mid-nineteenth century, when the railways first made the seaside accessible to all, right up to the modern day, with supermodels strutting their stuff on the catwalk for Gucci and Versace. There's tons of info on the chronology of fabrics, from heavy felts and wools, up to modern synthetics. And a wealth of illustrations show bathing machines, 30's lido's, knobbly knees contests - and my favourite of all - dozens of vintage adverts for swimwear.