New York PPP Editions, in association with Roth Horowitz, LLC 2001 1st Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth with debossed title on spine, with dust jacket. Edited by Andrew Roth. Essays by Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daido Moriyama, Shelley Rice and Neville Wakefield. Catalogue entries by Vince Aletti and David Levi Strauss. Also includes author biographies and an index. 306 pp., beautifully printed on fine heavy-stock paper at the Stamperia Valdonega with numerous four-color and black-and-white plates. 12 x 10 inches. This first edition was limited to 5000 copies. Out of print. Scarce. Fine in Fine dust jacket. From the publisher: "The history of the photographic book goes back well more than a century; the medium of photography and the book format were understood very early on to relate to each other on both technical and aesthetic levels. The examples of truly great combinations of photographic image and text, great design and typography bound together as books are numerous, and make up an impressive artistic, social, and documentary statement of the 20th century. Writer and rare book expert Andrew Roth has selected for this volume a group of 101 of the best photography books ever published: books that bring all of the elements of great bookmaking together to create, ultimately, a thing of beauty, a work of art. Mostly made up of publications in which the photographs were meant to be ...

New York PPP Editions, in association with Roth Horowitz, LLC 2001 1st Edition Hardcover Fine. No dust jacket as issued First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, quarter bound silk, with debossed title on spine, with custom-made slipcase bound in silk. 306 pp., beautifully printed on fine heavy-stock paper at the Stamperia Valdonega with numerous four-color and black and white plates. 12 x 10 inches. Edited by Andrew Roth. Essays by Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daido Moriyama, Shelley Rice and Neville Wakefield. Catalogue entries by Vince Aletti and David Levi Strauss. Also includes author biographies and an index. Fine in Near Fine slipcase (slight shelfwear to top and bottom of slipcase).