ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees, Pasadena] Hardcover First Edition Beautifully illustrated with finely printed full-page gravure plates on heavy stock, juxtaposed with limited text by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and Jean Baudrillard. Slim 8vo, black cloth, d.w. Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. Limited first edition -- one of 2000 copies. A fine copy, as new, in a fine dust wrapper. Despite the fairly high limitation, this debut collection of Schles' gritty urban photographs is scarce and highly collectible.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, Date: 1988. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Small clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. The correct first printing of the photographer's first book. Fine clothbound copy in dustwrapper. A book noted in Parr & Badger's The Photobook: Volume III. SIGNED by Schles and dated on the title page. Quite uncommon thus. (Not to be confused with a much later reprint edition). 1988. Twelvetrees Press [US]

Pasadena, California Twelvetrees Press 1988 First edition. Hard cover new in publishers shrinkwrap Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 96 p. Audience: General/trade. first edition of this rare single edition monograph. Printed in Kyoto, Japan using the lush sheet-fed gravure process which renders the New York City nights in these photographs a sensual and tactile enveloping blackness.

Pasadena, California Twelvetrees Press 1988 1st Edition Hardcover Fine in Near Fine jacket First edition, first printing. Signed and dated "NYC 2008" in black ink on the title page by Schles. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth-covered boards with title blindstamped on cover and spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Ken Schles. Text excerpted from Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka and Jean Baudrillard. Unpaginated (80 pp. ), with full-bleed black-and-white gravure plates throughout beautifully printed on heavy matte paper. 9-1/8 x 6-7/8 inches. This first edition was limited to 2000 copies. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume III. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2014)]. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (some very light indentations, visible only in raking light). Schles' gritty photographs of urban life--an homage of sorts to Weegee's Naked City--are juxtaposed with key texts on life in modern cities. The end result is a disquieting book in which urban existence is presented as both exhilarating and heartless. Signed by Author.

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Pr] Hardcover First Edition Signed and inscribed by Ken Schles to the previous owner on the title page. Pasadena, California: Twelvetree Press, 1988. First edition, first printing. Limited to 2000 copies. Hardcover. 8vo - 7 x 9 “. Unpaginated [75 pp]. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Minor rubbing and creases to the dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. The interior is clean and solid. Signed by Ken Schles. This is the first printing of the photographer’s first book. Inscribed to “John” and dated November, 1990. This book was noted in Parr & Badger’s The Photobook: Volume III.
[Running Springs, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press Date: 1988, 1988. Schles's own inscribed copy. First edition. Limited to 2000 copies. Unpaginated. 233x176mm. Midnight blue cloth, blind stamped to upper cover and spine. Dust jacket is a photocopy as explained in the inscription by Ken Schles on the title page. The inscription reads: "For years I held this copy and showed it until the dust jacket disintegrated - I'm sorry - I had to put this xerox copy on the cover but it's a good book, no? This [the photograph on the title page] is in my apartment on Mott many years ago. LA 2009". In addition to the inscription, Schles has signed the title page "K.S." Tiny closed tear to the top edge of the upper cover of the dustjacket but otherwise in fine condition throughout. The photographs are printed in five inks using a special screen to reproduce the look of the original photogravure. Three pages of "Notes" which are excerpts from Lewis Mumford, Borges, Kafka, Orwell and Baudrillard. These texts are on the theme of urban decay and alienation and echo the bleakness of Schles's powerful images of the "naked netherworld" of a New York in decline, a city of gang war, underworlds, damaged people and burnt out buildings. Schles himself describes Invisible City as a dark book and it was immediately recognised as an important work (it was a New York Times "notable book of the year"): it retains its central place among the great photobooks ...