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Ex Libris. Photographs and Constructs [WITH SIGNED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH 73/100]
by Gibson, Ralph
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine to fine condition
- ISBN 10
- 1576871142
- ISBN 13
- 9781576871140
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: powerHouse Books, 2001. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. Signed on verso of photograph "73/100 Ralph Gibson 2000." Quarto. 142 (2)pp. Original black cloth with red and blind-stamped lettering on cover, red on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, red lettering on spine; housed in matching black cloth slipcase. Red endpapers. Photo-illustrated half-title. Frontispiece. Title page printed in red and black. "Ex Libris is a book about books, a lexicon of signs, letterforms, shapes, and images that inducts the viewer to an imaginary ideal library comprised of masterworks spanning the breadth of history-from the dawn of language to the digital age. In Ralph Gibson's stunningly beautiful and exquisitely rendered photographs, the handwriting of Bach, Balsac, and Kafka, as well as the earliest forms of typography from ancient Roman stone carvings to the Gutenberg Bible are redefined as an iconographic testimony to the power of the written word." (Publisher). Very light wear along edges of dustjacket and slipcase, else fine.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49589
- Title
- Ex Libris. Photographs and Constructs [WITH SIGNED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH 73/100]
- Author
- Gibson, Ralph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine to fine condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, limited
- ISBN 10
- 1576871142
- ISBN 13
- 9781576871140
- Publisher
- powerHouse Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- b/w photography, limited edition, original photograph, typography, stone carvings, Gutenberg Bible
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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