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 ...

Very Good. 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. ISBN 094264235X 9780942642353 [US]

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.

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: 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: Twelvetrees, Date: 1988. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. Schles, Ken. 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.<br/><br/> Despite the fairly high limitation, this debut collection of Schles' gritty urban photographs is scarce and highly collectible.<br/><br/> 1988. Twelvetrees ISBN 094264235X US

Pasadena: Twelvetrees, Date: 1988. Limited. hardcover. fine/fine. Schles, Ken. 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.<br/><br/> Despite the fairly high limitation, this debut collection of Schles' gritty urban photographs is scarce and highly collectible.<br/><br/> 1988. Twelvetrees ISBN 094264235X 9780942642353 [US]

Twelvetrees Press, Date: 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Los Angeles, CA: Twelvetrees Press(1988) . Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition / First Printing. Unpaginated. The artist/photographer's breakthrough debut collection. Photographs by Ken Schles, edited by Jack Woody. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ken Schles. Text-quotations by Jean Baudrillard, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Lewis Mumford, and George Orwell. Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with slight rubbing and wear to top edge of front panel from handling and shelf wear. Nice copy. 1988. Twelvetrees Press ISBN 094264235X 9780942642353 [US]

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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1st printing, limited edition (2000). Fine HC in Near Fine DJ. Black cloth over boards, blind stamped titles on front cover and spine; photo pictorial end papers. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; faint age darkening on inner face at edges; now in protective paper-backed mylar. 8vo, unpaged (80 pp). Date: 1988. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press ISBN 094264235X 9780942642353 [US]

(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard. INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, Date: 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment - often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism - seemingly in the dead of night. A like new, pristine example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies. 0-942642-35-X Inventory Number: 023353 1988. Twelvetrees Press ISBN 094264235X 9780942642353 [US]

Pasadena Twelvetrees Pr 1988 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket Octavo. 90pgs. Dark blue boards, pictorial endpapers. Black and white photographs throughout. As new in as new pictorial jacket. For a decade Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood. His camera has fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments become the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal vision emerges. Invisible City is considered alongside Brassaï's Paris de Nuit and Ed van der Elksen's Love On The Left Bank to be one of the great depictions of the nocturnal bohemian experience of the 20th century.

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Pr, Pasadena] Hardcover First Edition 90pgs. Dark blue boards, pictorial endpapers. Black and white photographs throughout. As new in as new pictorial jacket.For a decade Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood. His camera has fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments become the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal vision emerges. Invisible City is considered alongside Brassaï’s Paris de Nuit and Ed van der Elksen’s Love On The Left Bank to be one of the great depictions of the nocturnal bohemian experience of the 20th century. Size: Octavo
[Madison, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Press] Hardcover First Edition Los Angeles, CA: Twelvetrees Press(1988) . Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition / First Printing. Unpaginated. The artist/photographer's breakthrough debut collection. Photographs by Ken Schles, edited by Jack Woody. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ken Schles. Text-quotations by Jean Baudrillard, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Lewis Mumford, and George Orwell. Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to front and rear panels from handling and shelf wear, previous owners blind stamp to inner jacket flap.
[Thornwood, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, CA] Hardcover First Edition Book in near fine condition; slightest bow; otherwise, clean, unmarked, with sound binding. Dust jacket in very good condition; soft crinkling to edges; faint scuffing; light toning to edges on reverse, with one small area of light damp staining bottom edge reverse side. Edition of 2,000 copies. Non-paginated. Black cloth boards with blind stamped lettering front board and spine. 9 x 6 7/8 in. Inv. BN021.
[San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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Pasadena, CA Twelvetrees Press 1988 First Edition 1/2000 Hardcover (SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard. INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Facsimile Dust Jacket. np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment-often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism-seemingly in the dead of night. A most handsome example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies LACKING the publisher's dust jacket but with a facsimile jacket supplied. It has been priced accordingly. 0-942642-35-X Inventory Number: 024206.

[publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, CA] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Hardcover. First printing of Schles' first book which was printed in and edition of only 2000 copies. A collection of gritty black and white images. A clean and tight near fine copy in a very good photo-illustrated dust jacket with a few small edge tears and minor wear. Previously, a glaring omission from the recent photo reference books but included in Parr & Badger Vol III.
[Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard. INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, Date: 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Facsimile Dust Jacket. np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment - often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism - seemingly in the dead of night. A most handsome example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies LACKING the publisher's dust jacket but with a facsimile jacket supplied. It has been priced accordingly. 0-942642-35-X Inventory Number: 024206 1988. Twelvetrees Press ISBN 094264235X 9780942642353 [US]

Twelvetrees Press 1988 Hardcover Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket; Hardcover; First Edition, One of 2, 000 copies; This book is in close to new condition; The book was still wrapped in plastic when we received it, and we removed the wrap to check the edition number; Jacket is glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with "sharp" edge-corners; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); Black dust jacket with photo illustration and title in white lettering; 1988, Twelvetrees Press; 80 pages; "Invisible City, " by Ken Schles.

[publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena CA,] First edition. Octavo; hardcover, with blind-stamped spine and upper board titles and illustrated endpapers; unpaginated (80pp.) with many monochrome illustrations. Near fine in like dustwrapper, now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighbourhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his invisible city. Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal vision emerges. A penetrating and intimate portrayal of a world few had entrance to - or means of egress from - Invisible City stands alongside Brassai's "Paris de Nuit" and van der Elsken's "Love On The Left Bank" as one of the 20th century's great depictions of nocturnal bohemian experience. Documenting his life in New York City's East Village during its heyday in the tumultuous 1980s, Schles captured its look and attitude in delirious and dark style.
[Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: ...
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Twelvetrees Pr, Date: 1988-09-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1988. Twelvetrees Pr ISBN 094264235X 9780942642353 [US]

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena. CA] Hardcover First Edition This is the first printing of a limited 2000 copies. Only a very light dust dulling to the top edge of note. Feels as though it has never been opened. The jacket has some light shelf wear only. For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighbourhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his invisible city
[Tararua, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 1988]
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Twelvetrees Press, Date: 1988. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.. Limited to 2000 hardcover copies. 1988. Twelvetrees Press [US]

Twelvetrees Pr 1988-09-01 Hardcover New Size: 9x6x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Pr] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]