Optikon : A New Photographic View of Greece
by Kontos, Nikos & Gravalos, Panayiote
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine - Slight Chips
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Athens: Chryssos Typos, 1980 Book. Illus. by Trans Kimon Friar. Near Fine. Hardcover. Autograph of Previous Owner. 1st Greek Ed... English translation of " Optikon, peri Hellados pho?toapopse?" Prologue by Marios Ploritis. A Gloriously evocative photographic survey of people and places in modern Greece, with quotations from Greek poets, translated by Kimon Friar, to accompany the illustrations. Nikos Kontos was an official photographer for Olympic Airways and the National Tourist Board of Greece (EOT) Panayiots Gravalos is a well-known graphic artist in Greece. No date (c. 1980? ) 304p. plates Donor inscription on half title, else near fin,e NOTE: Heavy [1.6kg] oversized volume [30x23x3.5 cm].
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044248
- Title
- Optikon : A New Photographic View of Greece
- Author
- Kontos, Nikos & Gravalos, Panayiote
- Illustrator
- Trans Kimon Friar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine - Slight Chips
- Edition
- 1st Greek Ed..
- Publisher
- Chryssos Typos
- Place of Publication
- Athens
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- MODERN GREECE GREEKS PHOTOGRAPHS PICTORIAL WORKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greece - Pictorial Works; Greece - Photographs; GIFT BOOKS;
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