Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay : photographs and text Tapa dura - 1981

NY: Knopf, 1981. 1st. Softcover. Good/None. Illustrated throughout in color. Softcover with light edgewear and rubbing to wrappers. Foxing to edges, faint musty smell. Falkland Road is a notorious street of prostitutes in Bombay. It is like any busy lower-class street in Bombay, densely populated by vendors, merchants and shops, but also overcrowded with girls, from 11-year-olds to 65-year-old ex-madams. The street is lined with old wooden buildings, which teem with prostitutes hanging out of the windows, in the viewing cages on the ground floor, and on the steps. From sunrise to sunset the customers pass down the street to survey the girls. Mary Ellen Mark's extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published in 1981 and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant Magnum photographer. The book contains 65 photographs made over six weeks that show the daily life lived by the women (and men) of the street. Mark's images are beautiful, electric,… Leer más

Thames & Hudson, 1981 First Printing of the First UK Edition in dust jacket, book is unmarked and shows only the slightest bump to top corners and softening to spine ends, jacket shows a few tiny edge tears and slight chipping and laminate peel at spine ends (loooks very nice in mylar protector), otherwise clean tight exceptionally nice copy of scarce original edition in very nice jacket of Mark's classic photographic essay about India's most invisible. sq 4to; unpaginated with 63 color plates. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

U.S.A.: Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Oversize Paperback. Good. Book shows considerable wear with first front endpaper missing, lightly curled front cover with a notable crease at lower front corner incorporating a 1/4"" tear. Back cover age toned at edges with a slight curl also. Text/interior is clean and complete with text and 65 impressive full color, full page plates, all in excellent condition. Binding is solid though somewhat fragile as a perfect-bound 34 year old book. ""Falkland Road is a notorious street in Bombay lined with old wooden buildings which teem with prostitutes hanging out of the windows, in the viewing cages on the ground floor, and on the steps. From sunrise to sunset the customers pass down the street to survey the girls. Mary Ellen Mark's extraordinary portrait of Falkland Road was first published by Knopf in 1981, and has long been recognized as one of the major bodies of work in the canon of this significant Magnum photographer. The book contains sixty-five photographs… Leer más

Stated First Edition, Knopf, 1981. In very good condition, clean and unmarked, blue cloth boards without wear, in a very good dust jacket, closed tears at edges, wear at foot of spine, publisher's price intact.

Knopf, 1981-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!