Invisible City Tapa dura - 1988

Twelvetrees, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. No slipcase. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Pasadena, California: Twelvetrees Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0-942642-35-X . Publishers blue cloth with blindstamped lettering to front cover and spine, endpapers and pages are chiefly b&w photographs, brief quotations by Lewis Mumford, Borges, Kafka, Orwell, Jean Baudrillard. Dust jacket with b&w photos to front and rear. Colophon states: This first edition ... is limited to 2000 casebound copies. ; 7" x 9-1/4"; Book with no wear of note. Jacket surface shows light scratches and with slight edgewear, protected by mylar cover. .

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. Near Fine/Near Fine. Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. Limited First Edition of 2000 copies. Octavo; [80]pp. Black and white photos throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; boards in blindstamped black cloth. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Schles' first monograph, catching the pulse of 1980s New York City from his East Village apartment. The book was a New York Times notable book of the year for 1988, was awarded the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) award for book design, and appeared in Photo Books: 802 Photo Books from the M + M Auer Collection, a reference to notable books in the history of photography.

Pasadena. CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is the first printing of a limited 2000 copies. Only a very light dust dulling to the top edge of note. Feels as though it has never been opened. The jacket has some light shelf wear only. For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighbourhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his invisible city

Twelvetrees Pr, 1988-09-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Twelvetrees Press, 1988. 1. Hardcover. Like New. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket; Hardcover; First Edition, One of 2,000 copies; This book is in close to new condition; The book was still wrapped in plastic when we received it, and we removed the wrap to check the edition number; Jacket is glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with "sharp" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); Black dust jacket with photo illustration and title in white lettering; 1988, Twelvetrees Press; 80 pages; "Invisible City," by Ken Schles.

(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard. INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Facsimile Dust Jacket. np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment - often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism - seemingly in the dead of night. A most handsome example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies LACKING the publisher's dust jacket but with a facsimile jacket supplied. It has been priced accordingly. 0-942642-35-X… Leer más

Los Angeles, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Los Angeles, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Unpaginated. The photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the 2014 Steidl New Edition. Published as a hardcover original only. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Ken Schles and Jack Woody: Regular-sized volume format. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ken Schles. Text-quotations by Jean Baudrillard, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Lewis Mumford, and George Orwell. Printed in gravure on thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards, a masterpiece of sheetfed gravure printing, outstanding in every respect. In black pictorial DJ with titles on… Leer más

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Pr, 1988. 90pgs. Dark blue boards, pictorial endpapers. Black and white photographs throughout. As new in as new pictorial jacket.For a decade Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood. His camera has fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments become the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal vision emerges. Invisible City is considered alongside Brassaï’s Paris de Nuit and Ed van der Elksen’s Love On The Left Bank to be one of the great depictions of the nocturnal bohemian experience of the 20th century. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo.

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.