After & Before: Documenting the A-bomb de Elkins, James

New York: Roth Horowitz LLC / PPP, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Published in an edition of 1000 copies and in conjunction with an exhibition January 9 through February 22, 2003. Features text by Hilton Als and James Elkins. A powerful look at the devastation created by the A-Bomb. A close to near fine copy in paper covered boards with some minor wear. No dust jacket as issued.

PPP Editions, New York, 2003. hardcover. fine. What might Baghdad and Manhattan look like after a nuclear assault? The relevance of such a question lends a more than chilling aspect to this little book, which pieces together the "before" and "after" of a story whose moral we seem to have forgotten. Before: snapshots taken of Hiroshima after the atom bomb leveled the city in 1945. After: a set of extraordinary photographs by Harold Edgerton, hired in the 1950s by the U.S. government to document its nuclear tests. Essays by Hilton Als and James Elkins.

New York: Roth Horowitz LLC / PPP, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Number 10 of only 50 copies from a total edition of 1000 published in conjunction with an exhibition that ran January 9 through February 22, 2003. Text by Hilton Als and James Elkins. A powerful look at the devastation created by the A-Bomb that includes several black and white photographs by Harold Edgerton just after a successful test of the A-Bomb along with a number of images of the impact of the bomb on Japan. A very near fine copy in paper covered boards. No dust jacket as issued. Although not called for this copy has been signed by Hilton Als on the colophon page.