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Bruce Davidson. Brooklyn Gang: Summer 1959. Twin Palms Publishing, 1998.
Price: US$347.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, just a few light handling-marks, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Very light crease to the middle of the first endpaper, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 2.3 lbs; Black and white photo to jacket of two men with title in yellow lettering; 1998, Twin Palms Publishing; 96 pages; "Brooklyn Gang: Summer 1959," by Bruce Davidson.
Seller: Salish Sea Books, Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.
Davidson, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang: Summer 1959. Twin Palms Pub, 1998.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Still in shrinkwrap.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Davidson, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. Twin Palms, Santa Fe, 1998.
Price: US$480.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black and white gravure photographs of youth culture in Brooklyn in the late 1950's. One of four thousand casebound copies. 100 pages. 10 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Bottom edge dented; there is a bit of creasing in the upper margin of the last 12 or so pages (all text, no images), probably a production flaw and the dust jacket has some shelf wear, mostly on the back panel.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bruce Davidson. BROOKLYN GANG. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa FE, NM, 1998.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First time in book form, Davidson's ground-breaking photos of wayward youth, circa 1959. Now out of print, this is a mint copy in publisher's original shrink-wrap.
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Bruce Davidson. Brooklyn Gang: Summer 1959. Twin Palms Pub, 1998.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing limited numbered edition of only 150 signed copies in slipcase. This is a Fine copy in Fine dust jacket and Fine slipcase. Quite uncommon.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Davidson, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang Summer 1959. Twin Palms Publishers, C4c, 1998.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Published by Twin Palms, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1998. 96 pgs. One of a limited edition of 4000 copies. Signed and inscribed by Bruce Davidson on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1959 Davidson read about the teenage gangs of New York City. Connecting with a social worker to make initial contact with a gang called the Jokers, Davidson became a daily observer and photographer of this alienated youth culture. The Fifties are often considered passive and pale by our standards of urban reality, but Davidson's photographs prove otherwise. In a recent New York Times article discussing this work, Davidson admitted he feared the erratic and often violent rules and routines of the Jokers. It is tempting to consider what this book might have been like had more of the detail of Brooklyn's 1950s white gang culture, as revealed in that Times article, been used to reinforce this spare volume. But this book gets to the point quickly, on its own terms. Nearly 70 sheet-fed gravure plates images of tough people, tough lives, tough lovers, all trying to be cool are followed by just two pages of recollections by the photographer and a lengthier interview with Benjie, a surviving gang member, now a drug counselor. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 96 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Davidson, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang: Summer 1959. Twin Palms Publisher, Santa Fe, N. M., 1998.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: 98pgs. Black yellow stamped cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket in fine slipcase. Beautifully designed and reproduced using the sheet fed gravure method, this collection of Bruce Davidson's photos of a Brooklyn gang were taken in the the 1950's and are here gathered in book form for the first time. This book was limited to 4,000 casebound copies in addition to 150 signed and numbered copies of which this is #118, in black slipcase, yellow lettering. Davidson has signed his name on the lower portion of the colophon page in black felt tip pen. The book is numbered in yellow ink, also on the colophon. A beautiful production. Size: Quarto
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$785.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Twin Palms. Cloth. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Limited/Numbered. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 99 pp. This is an amazing collection of gang related photos, beautifully reproduced. First printing limited numbered edition of only 150 copies in slipcase and signed. This copy is number 95 out of 150, (numbers 1-50 came with a print and book in clamshell box, so actually 88 of a hundred for this slipcase autographed edition). Rare book, best price. Images of the actual book will be provided upon request.
Seller: Assaf Books and Art, Palmdale, CA, U.S.A.
DAVIDSON, Bruce.. Brooklyn Gang.. Santa Fe, Twin Palms, 1998,, 1998.
Price: US$937.30 + shipping
Description: Santa Fe, Twin Palms, 1998, 4° / 28,5 x 26,0 cm. 98 (2) pages. Black original cloth, photo-illusrated dust jacket. A near fine copy in a like dust jacket. - Rare in this condition. Sehr gutes nahezu verlagsfrisches Exemplar. Selten in diesem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Davidson, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang: Summer 1959. Twin Palms Pub, 1998.
Price: US$986.63 + shipping
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Seller: Ludilivre Photobooks, FONTAINEBLEAU, France
Bruce Davidson. Brooklyn Gang. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, 1998.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Santa Fe). LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. One of 50 copies with SIGNED photograph. Light wear to rear board. Slight wear to d.j. Fading to spine of clamshell box. NF/NF in NF slipcase.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Davidson, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. Twin Palms Publishers, 1998.
Price: US$4650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original binding and original dust-jacket, both in fine condition. Comes with original cloth clamshell book-box, tiny bump to head and lower opening corner, otherwise fine. An extremely rare signed reproduction copy of Davidson`s classic `Brooklyn Gang`. One of only fifty signed copies with a clamshell box and original print. Both the book (in pen) and the verso of the original print (in pencil) have been signed by Davidson. This copy is numbered `5/150` (150 copies in total were autographed). Print in black passepartout. 98 p. Text in English. Due to the size and weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be applied.
Seller: Kagerou Bunko (ABAJ, ILAB), Tokyo, Japan
DAVIDSON, Bruce.. Brooklyn Gang.. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publisher, 1998, 1998.
Price: US$5763.89 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. One of 50 copies signed by the photographer with a photographic print signed on the verso also signed by the photographer. This is the first publication of the complete set of a series of photographs taken during the summer of 1959 by Magnum photographer Davidson. The photographs follow "The Jokers", one of the many youth gangs in Brooklyn at a time when there were "an estimated thousand gang members in New York City". The photographs are accompanied by a short text by the photographer and a longer interview with one of the former gang members. Roth 196 Quarto. Original black cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in yellow. With photographic dust jacket. Housed in the original black cloth clamshell box with lettering to front cover and spine in yellow. Illustrated with 71 full page photogravure images. Together with a loose photographic print. Image size: 19 x12.7 cm. Sheet size: 25 x 20 cm. All in fine condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
DAVIDSON Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. , 1998.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Description: "DAVIDSON, Bruce. Brooklyn Gang. (Santa Fe): Twin Palms, 1998. Square quarto, original black cloth, original photographic dust jacket, original black cloth clamshell box. WITH: Gelatin silver print, measuring 5-1/2 by 8 inches, matted; total piece measures 11 by 10 inches. $6000.Signed limited first edition, number 9 of only 150 copies signed by Davidson, and one of only 50 to include a matted gelatin silver print of young men outside a tattoo parlor from the book, also signed by Davidson, in pencil on the verso, featuring 71 sheet-fed photogravure plates.In book form for the first time, this is the "most memorable" of Bruce Davidson's early photo essays, "the grainy, cinematic record of the time he spent hanging out with a Brooklyn teen gang called the Jokers" during the late 1950s (Roth, 196). Brooklyn Gang reflects Davidson's award-winning reputation as a "poet of transition, drawn to places and moments on the verge of historical eclipse The images of that summer have an eternal quality to them a lost world of stickball and boardwalks, of Vaseline hair and rolled sleeves" (New York Times). Published here in book form for the first time, photographs from Davidson's series initially appeared in Esquire (June 1960). Text by Davidson; Emily Haas' interview with gang member Bengie. With publisher's printed limitation slip laid in. A fine signed book and print."
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.