Before You, Santa Claus, Life Was Like A Moonless Night [SIGNED]

Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. 1/500. Unpaginated. Original black boards with gray lettering and vignette on cover, gray lettering on spine, with printed band folded vertically around front cover. Half-title printed in four stages to four heavy parchment pages in variant sizes. Frontispiece photograph. Title page with vignette. Signed by Andrea Alessio on title page.

A photographic artist book by all intents and purposes. Printed to heavy stock Scheufelen paper, except the first four on parchment, like a calendar turned sideways. Printed and bound in Italy by Vianello srl - TV with book design by Fabrizio Radaelli. The thirty-one photographs by Alessio represent "a night journey through Northeast Italy, immersed in the silence and in the darkness of the night, if it weren't for those Christmas lights." (Flavio Franzoni). Text in English and Italian. Back board with very light rubbing.