Harry Callahan: Photographs (El Mochuelo Gallery)
Publisher: Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery and Van Riper & Thompson, 1964
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 114119
$1,350.00
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued; contained in a matching slipcase. Photographs and text by Harry Callahan. Essay by Hugo Weber. Includes a bibliography. Designed by Wayne Thompson. Unpaginated, with 126 black-and-white plates beautifully printed using 300-line screen offset process on Warren's Offset Enamel paper by the Meriden Gravure Company. The text is handset and printed letterpress in Bembo and Centaur by Bradley Brownell. 13-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 1500 copies.
[Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), and in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).]
Condition
Near Fine (endpapers discolored, in vertical strips along the spine, due to aging of the glue used, as is the case with virtually all copies of this title, else Fine).
