Beirut City Center Beyrouth Centre Ville

E-038: Éditions Du Cyprès. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1992. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to Published by Editions du Cypres, 1992. 167 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Text in English. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The photographs collected in this rare volume are part of a project dating back to 1991, when Basilico and five other international photographers were invited by the Lebanese writer Dominique Eddé to document the center of Beirut at the end of the civil war which lasted fifteen years. Gabriele Basilico (12 August 1944 – 13 February 2013) was an Italian photographer who defined himself as "a measurer of space". EB; 12.2 X 11.2 X 1.0 inches .