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INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES

INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES

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INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES

by (SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard

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Near Fine/Facsimile Dust Jacket
ISBN 10
094264235X
ISBN 13
9780942642353
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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, 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

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Bookseller
Arcana: Books on the Arts US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
024206
Title
INVISIBLE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN SCHLES
Author
(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard
Format/Binding
Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Facsimile Dust Jacket
Edition
First Edition 1/2000
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
094264235X
ISBN 13
9780942642353
Publisher
Twelvetrees Press
Place of Publication
Pasadena, CA
Date Published
1988
Keywords
Ken Schles, Photography, Photo Monograph, Literature and Fiction, Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Jean Baudrillard, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III", The Photobook / Open Book

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