Invisible City: Photographs
by SCHLES, KEN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First Edition, First Printng. Limited to 2,000 copies. Photographs by Ken Schles, now famous photographer's breakthrough debut c/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 094264235X
- ISBN 13
- 9780942642353
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Limited to 2,000 copies. Photographs by Ken Schles in his now famous photographer's breakthrough debut collection. Schles' gritty photographs of urban life are juxtaposed with key texts on life in modern cities. With full-bleed black-and-white gravure plates throughout beautifully printed on heavy matte paper. Edited by Jack Woody. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Text-quotations by Jean Baudrillard, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Lewis Mumford, and George Orwell. Fine in original dark navy cloth, lettered in blind on upper cover and spine, and fine pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. 6.875 x 9.125 in. Unpaginated. 80pp. A fantastic copy of this acclaimed work.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3017
- Title
- Invisible City: Photographs
- Author
- SCHLES, KEN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - First Edition, First Printng. Limited to 2,000 copies. Photographs by Ken Schles, now famous photographer's breakthrough debut c
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 094264235X
- ISBN 13
- 9780942642353
- Publisher
- Twelvetrees Press
- Place of Publication
- Pasadena, CA
- Date Published
- 1988
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