Seattle Now and Then

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.: Tartu Pubns, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, spine is gently creased as well as the lower front corner, isbn is written in ink on the inner front cover, lightly shelf worn, overall a clean used signed first edition! Signed and dated by the author on the title page! Prolificly illustrated. Black and white pictorial wrappers. Unpaginated, wonderfully illustrated with historic black and white photographs! 112 historical chapters. "I photographed my first 'now' in 1978. My subject was the intersection of Second Avenue and Bell Street in Seattle's Denny Regrade. The story of that photographic act is this book's 52nd chapter ---- I call them 'features.' Mine was not an original act. 'Now and Then' is a photographic convention almost as old as the medium. Daguerre first introduced his 'mirror with a memory' before the French Academy in 1839. That was 14 years before the settlement of Seattle was surveyed and platted, and, in the meantime, photographers were turning and returning for now-and-thens to street corners in Paris, moscow, and Alexandria ---- years before there were any intersections in Seattle....." ---- from the Introduction.. Signed by Author. First Edition / First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.