1972, ISBN: 9780912334400

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First edition. 52 full-page b/w photographs. Unpaginated. 1 vols. 4to (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). Beige blind-stamped cloth. Fine, in very good slig… More...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First edition. 52 full-page b/w photographs. Unpaginated. 1 vols. 4to (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). Beige blind-stamped cloth. Fine, in very good slightly chipped, unclipped dust jacket with closed tear to front panel. First edition. 52 full-page b/w photographs. Unpaginated. 1 vols. 4to (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches). Part one of Morris' groundbreaking photo-fiction trilogy depicts his native Nebraska as a depopulated world of delapidated ruin and desolation Thomas Mann wrote to Morris: "What these courageous pictures show is the harsh beauty of ugliness, the romanticism of the commonplace, the poetry of the unpoetical." (Roth, 122). Roth 101, pp. 122-3, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946, 3, Aperture, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Diane Arbus. An Aperture Monograph. Designed and edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Aperture, New York, 1972. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing (with the 2 girls in identical raincoats photo). Hardbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Numerous black-and-white reproductions throughout. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket showing light soiling and rubbing with a small closed tear to upper right corner of front cover at fold over, andother small closed tear to lower margin of front cover and small area of loss to lower rear corner at rear joint (not affecting the spine). Overall a solid copy of the true first edition that presents very nicely in the original dust jacket. The rare first printing of the definitive Arbus monograph with the "Two girls in identical raincoats" image that was struck from all but a few copies of (the numerous) subsequent printings. "...published in 1972, a year after Arbus's suicide and in conjunction with a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. The museum's photo curator, John Szarkowski, was an early Arbus supporter... but Arbus's place in the public consciousness was sealed largely by Aperture's book...--Vince Aletti in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books., Aperture, 1972, 4.5<

1972, ISBN: 9780912334400

Aperture, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Diane Arbus. An Aperture Monograph. Designed and edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Aperture, New York, 19… More...

Aperture, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Diane Arbus. An Aperture Monograph. Designed and edited by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel. Aperture, New York, 1972. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing (with the 2 girls in identical raincoats photo). Hardbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Numerous black-and-white reproductions throughout. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket showing light soiling and rubbing with a small closed tear to upper right corner of front cover at fold over, andother small closed tear to lower margin of front cover and small area of loss to lower rear corner at rear joint (not affecting the spine). Overall a solid copy of the true first edition that presents very nicely in the original dust jacket. The rare first printing of the definitive Arbus monograph with the "Two girls in identical raincoats" image that was struck from all but a few copies of (the numerous) subsequent printings. "...published in 1972, a year after Arbus's suicide and in conjunction with a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. The museum's photo curator, John Szarkowski, was an early Arbus supporter... but Arbus's place in the public consciousness was sealed largely by Aperture's book...--Vince Aletti in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books., Aperture, 1972, 4.5<

1972, ISBN: 9780912334400

Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1972. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine. There is foxing along the extremities, and the endpape… More...

Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1972. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine. There is foxing along the extremities, and the endpapers. minor waviness to the pages. Matching photo-illustrated dust jacket has closed tear on the upper right corner of the front panel foxing to the extremities, light wriinkling on the rear panel of the jacket.in mylar sleeve. Includes 15 pages of text by Diane Arbus edited from tape recordings of a series of classes Arbus gave in 1971 as well as from interviews and her writings. FIRST EDITION includes the photo of "Two Girls in Identical Raincoats" which was removed from later printings due to legal controversy. Interior is near fine: clean, square and tight throughout. Published in 1972, a year after her suicide, in conjunction with a major exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Book is one of Andrew Roth's 101 seminal photographic books of the twentieth century: Arbus replaced photography's old model of smarmy humanism with a vision that was at once pitiless and engaged, tough and surprisingly tender." . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Diane Arbus (photographer). Quarto., Aperture, 1972, 3<

1972, ISBN: 9780912334400

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Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition of this early monograph. Offsetting to endpapers as on all copies we have seen else a lovely fine… More...

Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition of this early monograph. Offsetting to endpapers as on all copies we have seen else a lovely fine copy in black boards with bright and unflaked silver lettering to front panel and spine. Comes in a fine slipcase. This copy SIGNED by Callahan and very scarce thus. A Roth 101 selection. A large and heavy volume., El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964, 5, Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition, first issue with "Two girls in identical raincoats." Quarto. Faint crease on the corner of first image, slight foxing on topedge and a couple of leaves, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of this important and influential monograph, published shortly after the photographer's untimely death. Parr and Badger, *The Photobook Volume 1*, p. 258-259; Hasselblad, *The Open Book*, p. 284-285; Roth. *The Book of 101 Books*, p. 214-215., Aperture, 1972, 4.5<

1972, ISBN: 9780912334400

Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition, first issue with "Two girls in identical raincoats." Quarto. Faint crease on the corner of first image, sl… More...

Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition, first issue with "Two girls in identical raincoats." Quarto. Faint crease on the corner of first image, slight foxing on topedge and a couple of leaves, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of this important and influential monograph, published shortly after the photographer's untimely death. Parr and Badger, *The Photobook Volume 1*, p. 258-259; Hasselblad, *The Open Book*, p. 284-285; Roth. *The Book of 101 Books*, p. 214-215., Aperture, 1972, 4.5<