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Subject: [Leica] FS: Dr. Paul Wolff Books
From: maurice at mckay3d.com (Maurice M. Greeson)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:14:41 -0600

Four books by Dr. Paul Wolff, an early exponent of the Leica

   All four offered for $100 including free Media Mail shipping in the U.S.  
Payment by PayPal or most any way you like. 

?My First Ten Years With the Leica?

English edition:  No date or edition stated, but probably the only English 
edition. c. 1935 192 pages ? A ten year survey of Wolff's experiments with 
the Leica camera.  - 192 fine screen halftones and 11 reproductions in book 
print.  Described as the first successful attempt to make fine halftones of 
considerable size directly from small negatives and includes technical 
settings for each photograph.  Sections include Landscape, People, Travel, 
Mountains Workplace, Sports, etc. - text translated from the German by H. W. 
Zieler.  This fascinating book should be on every Leicaphile?s bookshelf.   
This in less than good condition with cracked hinges and very soiled covers. 
 The binding is tight and the contents are in very good condition.  No dust 
jacket

 ?Sport Shots?  English edition 1937.  141 pages including 111 half tone 
illustrations of the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin.   In very good condition, 
no dust jacket, with some browning on the inside front and back covers.

 ?My Experiences in Color Photography?  English edition. No date, 42 pages 
of text and 54 color plates.  Preface by Jacob Deschin.  In very good 
condition with a ?? tear at the top of the spine.  No dust jacket.

 ?Deutschland? Suden, Westen, Norden. 1950, 34 pages of text in German and 
200 B&W illustrations.  This is in very good condition with the dust jacket, 
bumped on the bottom corners. 

  There are not too many of the first two titles offered by the on line 
booksellers, and prices for the those two range up over $100 each.

Maurice M. Greeson
801-776-5712




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