first edition
1976 · New York
by EGGLESTON, William; Essay by John Szarkowski
New York: MIT Press for the Museum of Modern Art, 1976. Owner's name of a prominent photo historian written on front free endpaper and dedication leaf, covers with some slight wear at extremities, lower sheets edges of last few leaves just bumped. 4to. 110 pages. 48 color photographs and one black-and-white portrait of Eggleston. Original black bonded leather with gilt-stamped spine and cover onlay. First edition; no date on the title-page; copyright page dated only 1976. Issued as the companion to Eggleston's seminal 1976 exhibition at the MoMA. Auer 598; Open Book 308-309; Parr and Badger I:265; Roth 238-239.
(Inventory #: 409906)