Vulgaris Tapa dura - 2000

Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2000. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Rear Room Far Back White boards [5]+32 plates,pl,cep Limited to 2000 copies Short crimp lower right front board Light sun line top edge front board

Nazraeli Pr, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1/2000. Signed elegantly by the photographer on the title page. Greatly oversize hardcover with stunning full page b/w flower photography. Printed on extra thick matte paper. Very bright white textured cloth covers. Front has a light gray area at lower corner' rear has a small tan spot at upper edge. Rear green endpage has a fold. May need more shipping due to its larger dimensions. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca Library. .

Tucson: Nazaeli Press, 2000. First Edition. Very good +.. Signed first printing of the second in Van Dongen's trilogy of botanical photobooks from Nazraeli Press, following Alba Nero and preceding Nudare. Hardcover. Folio. White cloth boards with mounted white photograph to front, no dust jacket as issued. Spine lightly sunned and spotted, with a few faint smudges to cloth. SIGNED by Van Dongen to title page. Very good plus. Introduction by John Berendt. 32 large-scale black and white portraits of flowers, closely observed and beautifully presented.

Tucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. 1/2000 with original signed and numbered (30) matte-surface gelatin silver print of "Crocus 'Jeanne D'Arc" with tissue guards placed into photo corners at bottom of clamshell box. Elephant Folio. Unpaginated. Original off-white cloth with white lettering and original photograph laid to cover, in matching slipcase with silver print and white lettering on cover. Bright green endpapers. Volume two of van Dongen's botanical photo book trilogy Alba Nero, Vulgaris and Nudare, with an introduction by John Behrendt. In this volume van Dongen introduces thirty-two full page duotone portraits of flowers in extraordinary close-ups printed on matte paper. "The title of the book, "Vulgaris", means common, but I suspect van Dongen intends a bit of irony here. Granted, the flowers are all familiar enough; there is not a rare one among them. But the portraits are anything but ordinary." (Behrendt). Minor blemishes to… Leer más