Greek Doors, Volume I by Vrettacos, Costas

Athens: Tria Phylla, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Shelf wear and edging to dust jacket. Few small tears to dust jacket throughout.

Athens: Tria Phylla, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to (large). Publishers blue boards, 144pp. Illustrated. Bump to upper corners of front cover, some scuffing to boards but still very good in d/w. Tearing to jacket corners and extremities with wear. A tour of historical Greece through its surviving doors, knockers, and entranceways that enchant and inspire.

Athens: Tria Phylla, 1982 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Greek Edition. An excursion into an exotic world. The hundreds of closed doors photographed in these two books were once inseparable elements of human life, connecting the private and the public, both protecting and revealing the human scenes behind them. The ravages of time, the scarred wood and pitted bronze, no less than the locks, bars and chains, are eloquent reminders of the decades of conflict (indeed the centuries of conflict) which have battered these islands. The photographs, all in color, are moving and ovely.Translated into English by Christopher N.W. Klint.143p. illus.[col] index.