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.

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, Date: 1988. Near Fine/Near Fine. Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. Limited First Edition of 2000 copies. Octavo; [80]pp. Black and white photos throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; boards in blindstamped black cloth. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Schles' first monograph, catching the pulse of 1980s New York City from his East Village apartment. The book was a New York Times notable book of the year for 1988, was awarded the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) award for book design, and appeared in Photo Books: 802 Photo Books from the M + M Auer Collection, a reference to notable books in the history of photography. 1988. Twelvetrees Press ISBN 094264235X US

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]

Pasadena. CA: Twelvetrees Press, Date: 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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 1988. Twelvetrees Press ISBN 094264235x 9780942642353 [NZ]

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena] Hardcover First Edition Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. Limited First Edition of 2000 copies. Octavo; [80]pp. Black and white photos throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; boards in blindstamped black cloth. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Schles' first monograph, catching the pulse of 1980s New York City from his East Village apartment. The book was a New York Times notable book of the year for 1988, was awarded the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) award for book design, and appeared in Photo Books: 802 Photo Books from the M + M Auer Collection, a reference to notable books in the history of photography.
[Washington, DC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press] Hardcover First Edition 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).
[Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Press] 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.
[Bellingham, WA, 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

[publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena] Hardcover First Edition 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).
[Avon, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]
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Gottingen: Steidl, , Date: 2014. Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket). Perfetto (Mint). Firma autografa dell'Artista, datata NY 2015 (Signed by the Artist, dated NY 2015). Breve testo e fotografie in nero a tutta pagina di Ken Schles. Alla fine del libro sono riportate alcune citazioni di autori vari, fra questi: Kafka, Orwell, Jean Baudrillard, Mumford. Cm 22,5x17,5. pp. 162. Firma autografa dell'Artista, datata NY 2015 (Signed by the Artist, dated NY 2015). Perfetto (Mint). Prima edizione Steidl (First Steidl Edition). Per un decennio, Ken Schles ha osservato il passare del tempo dal suo quartiere del Lower East Side. La sua macchina fotografica ha fissato le istanze delle sue osservazioni e questi momenti sono diventati il fondamento della sua città invisibile. Amici e architetture passano sotto lo sguardo della sua lente e, una volta ordinati e visualizzati nelle pagine di questo libro, emerge una straordinaria visione personale. Venticinque anni dopo, Invisible City ha ancora la capacità di ammaliare lo spettatore. Un ritratto penetrante e intimo di un mondo a cui pochi avevano accesso - o possibilità di uscita - Invisible City si trova accanto a Paris de Nuit di Brassai e Love On The Left Bank di Van der Elsken come una delle grandi rappresentazioni dell'esperienza notturna bohémien del XX secolo. Documentando la sua vita nell'East Village di New York durante il suo periodo di massimo splendore nei tumultuosi anni '80, ...

(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, 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]

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]

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 ...

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Pr, Date: 1988. 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. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 1988. Twelvetrees Pr 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.

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, CA Twelvetrees Press 1988 1st Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket Book First Edition (stated), 1988, 2000 copies printed. Fine contents, binding and dust jacket. An excellent copy.

Sep 01, 1988 Very good 'Invisible City' by Ken Schles. Pub'd by Twelvetrees Press of Pasadena CA, 1988; 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).

Twelvetrees Press 1988 First edition, first printing Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover. Limited to 2000 hardcover copies.

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 and wear to top edge of front panel from handling and shelf wear. Nice copy.
[Thornwood, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 094264235X, ISBN13: 9780942642353, [publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, California] Hardcover First Edition 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.
[Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: ...
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[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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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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