signed first edition Cloth
1959 · Paris
by Photography - Klein, William
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1959. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. First French edition of Klein's second bok. One of his four "city" books. Unpaginated. Text in French. Black cloth binding printed in white at spine. A well-thumbed copy, but still in handsome very good condition. Small prior owner name to the table of contents page. The unclipped dustwrapper shows chipping and wear at edges. paper loss at top half-inch of spine area. Fairly typical condition from other copies we have handled. This copy benefits from being INSCRIBRED by the photographer on the table of contents page 'Rome, sweet Rome, William Klein" One of the more sought after photobooks of the period and well represented in the literature of the photobook having been cited in Roth, The Open Book as well as Parr and Badger Volume One.
(Inventory #: 27804)