'Book of 101 Books' Seminal Photographic Books of the 20th Century Andrew Roth

by Andrew Roth

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The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century ROTH, Andrew (Editor), MORIYAMA, Daido, BENSON, Richard, FRAENKEL, Jeffrey, RICE, Shelley, WAKEFIELD, Neville, CASTLEBERRY, May PUBLISHER: New York: PPP Editions, in association with Roth Horowitz, LLC, 2001 EDITION: 1st Edition BINDING: Hardcover ISBN: 0967077443 CONDITION: Fine / Fine First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth with debossed title on spine, with dust jacket. Edited by Andrew Roth. Essays by Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Daido Moriyama, Shelley Rice and Neville Wakefield. Catalogue entries by Vince Aletti and David Levi Strauss. Also includes author biographies and an index. 306 pp., beautifully printed on fine heavy-stock paper at the Stamperia Valdonega with numerous four-color and black-and-white plates. 12 x 10 inches. This first edition was limited to 5000 copies. Out of print. Scarce signed. From the publisher: "The history of the photographic book goes back well more than a century; the medium of photography and the book format were understood very early on to relate to each other on both technical and aesthetic levels. The examples of truly great combinations of photographic image and text, great design and typography bound together as books are numerous, and make up an impressive artistic, social, and documentary statement of the 20th century. Writer and rare book expert Andrew Roth has selected for this volume a group of 101 of the best

• Publisher: PPP Editions
• Year: 2001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine

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