The New Leica Manual, 12th Ed., 1951, Willard Morgan, Henry Lester, VG w/Good DJ

Morgan, Willard D., Henry M. Lester, et al. The New Leica Manual: A Manual for the Amateur and the Professional Covering the Field of Leica Camera Photography (New York: Morgan & Lester, 1951).

English, Twelfth Edition, a Very Good book in a Good dust jacket, Very Good overall, HC, 8vo, 8 3/4" x  6 1/4," 432 pp., including illustrations.

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Twelfth Edition. Very Good dark yellow cloth-covered boards. Covers have fading along top and bottom edges on front and back and slight wear to extremities, else clean and intact. Good yellow paper dust jacket, black and red lettering to dust jacket spine (red lettering very faded). Dust jacket has many chips and closed tears along top and bottom edges and tips, moderate fading (yellow is faded on dust jacket as well as red lettering on spine), and a hole measuring about 1 1/4" x 1/2" near spine on back, else clean and intact, not price-clipped. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages have slight age toning, else pristine and intact. A few pages of advertisements in back. Replete with illustrations, 345 illustrations in total, most in black-and-white, 13 in color. The 12th Edition of the Leica Manual. Contains much information about the 35mm Leica camera. A sampling of the subjects addressed are the Leica camera and accessories; Leica lenses; selection of 35mm film; color filters; flash photography; darkroom processes; printing photographs; color photography; photography for photojournalism, public relations, portraiture, and medicine; lantern slides and projections; underwater photography; and photomicrography.