Mexico City Waltz [SIGNED LTD. ED. w/ PRINT]

by Nicolas Comment

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

Both book & photograph are signed by Nicolas Comment. Condition: As New (with previous owner's blindstamp on front endpaper). First edition. Softcover (with dust-jacket, as issued) and a loosely inserted color photograph (of the cover image; numbered 3 of 6) in an acetate sleeve. 64 pages. 12.25 x 9 x .4 inches, ISBN 9782350462431. French text. "In the footsteps of three book religions, Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, Au dessous du Volcan by Malcolm Lowry, and Les Tarahumaras of Antonin Artaud, Nicolas Comment has lived two months in residence in Mexico. Mexico City Waltz is above all a poem composed of photographic double-page images that rhyme with one another and constitute a kind of visual equivalent of 'spontaneous literature' dear to Jack Kerouac (and which the title of this book is reference). In contrast to a catastrophic vision and expected Mexican, Mexico City Waltz celebrates the beauty and sensuality of Mexico today. We meet three young women, 'as brown as a ripe' (Malcolm Lowry) who are the real heroines of this book. Through them, it's Mexico City as a whole appears to us in its intimacy, as if the metropolis itself had been exposed . . . " -Publisher's text. USA customers please note: We only ship our books via USPS Media Mail (with insurance & tracking). International customers (ie, outside of the USA) please note: The standard international shipping cost quoted by Biblio is generally much less than the actual international shipping cost (we ship only with insuranc

• Publisher: Filigranes Editions
• Year: 2012
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: paperback

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