first edition hardcover
1988 · Pasadena
by SCHLES, Ken
Pasadena: Twelvetrees, 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. Despite the fairly high limitation, this debut collection of Schles' gritty urban photographs is scarce and highly collectible. (Inventory #: 248830)