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KLEIN, William. ROME: The City And Its People. Viking Press ( 1959 ), New York, 1959.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto, unpaginated, cloth, stamped name on half-title page; corner of front flap torn and taped to the endpaper English text, first appearing in French, and this appears to have been printed in France. With the loosely laid in Errata slip, which, not having been tipped-in, is now frequently lacking. Klein has been a photographer's photographer, and this is one of the volumes in his now-classic series of studies of cities of the world.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Klein, William. Rome: The City and Its People. Viking Press, New York 1959, 1959.
Price: US$169.50 + shipping
Description: 11 in. x 8.5 in., 189 pages, Cloth, Ex-library copy with all the abuse that comes with the term, portion of front pictorial endpaper missing, numbers in white ink on spine, discard stamps on several front and rear leaves, scotch tape repairs to several leaves at rear of book. The majority of content bright and clean edition. .
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$247.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: M : 196 pages, 23 x 29 cm - Fellini invited Klein to Rome to work as an assistant on his upcoming movie Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria). Shooting was delayed for a few weeks, so Klein took to the streets and pointed his camera at The city and its people. The resulting images, together with a couple of fashion pictures Klein shot for Vogue, became ROME. The book is divided into five chapters: Cittadini di Roma (Citizens of Rome), La Strada (The street), Città eterna (eternal city), Ragazzi (boys), Mondo cattolico (Catholic world). Each chapter is introduced with text and accompanied by small pictorial snippets of ephemera, snapshots and illustrations. The images themselves are pure Klein, demonstrating once again his ability to take seemingly stereotypical subjects and create something new, through his idiosyncratic visual language.
Seller: Antiquariat UEBUE, Zürich, Switzerland
KLEIN, William. Rome: The City and Its People. The Viking Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. The second book in his series of books to focus on cities. Like Klein's other books this offers a kaleidoscope like collection of black and white images with a kinetic energy. A near fine copy in black cloth boards. No dust jacket. A pleasing copy of this classic.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Klein, William. Rome - The City and Its People. Vist Books, London, 1959.
Price: US$275.12 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library copy with minimal markings, numbers on spine and on rear of title page. Evidence at rear where pocket has been removed. Cloth boards are in reasonable condition. Tape marks on e/p's. Front e/p has top corner cut off. Contents are holding but there are several places throughout the book with old tape down the hinges which could be holding the binding together. 190pp. There is general wear and some foxing throughout but still in very readable condition. Dust jacket also has general wear with many chips and small tears, some of which have been repaired, Staining to edges from old library-style cover which has been removed. It has been price clipped and is now recovered. Klein's Rome is a collective and definitive portrait of a living, yet ancient city.
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
Klein, William. Rome: The City and Its People. NY: Studio Book, Viking Press, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket; 190 pages; in English; fair condition: the dj has a large about 3 x 3 inch diagonal piece missing from the lower right corner and small chips to top of spine; spine slanted; pages not firmly attached at top of spine; no internal marks. As is; reference copy. Foreign shipping may be extra
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
William Klein. Rome: The City and Its People. The Viking Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: A tight, solid copy of the 1959 1st edition. Clean and VG+ in its dark cloth, with unflecked white lettering at the spine. Quarto, crisp black-and-white photography thruout. Lacking the dustjacket.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Klein, William. Rome: The City and Its People. Vista Books, London, 1959.
Price: US$440.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. 189pp. Illustrated. 1st UK edition 1959. Losses to d/w, with clear tape repairs to back of d/w. Front inner hinge splitting to bottom, but binding remains secure. Gift message to front blank. Crease down ffep. Private ownership. (r30)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
William Klein. Rome: The City and Its People. Vista Books, London, 1959.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st printing (1959). 189pp. Good/Good copy, binding loosening a little but holding fine, internally unmarked and very good, jacekt edgeworn with some chipping and small losses to spine ends, now preserved in archival jacket protector
Seller: Object Relations, IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$943.50 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. 189. English text. profusely illus. in b/w. illus. endleaves. cloth (minor discolouration at head & tail of spine). dw. (small chips to dw. corners, foot of spine chipped, five edge tears, creased chip in the upper left corner of front cover). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
KLEIN, William. Rome The City And Its People. The Viking Press, 1959.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [189] pp. 11 1/4" x 9" Divided into five sections (Roman Citizens, The Street, the Eternal City, Youth, and the Catholic World), each demonstrative of Klein's keen eye for expression, gesture, juxtaposition, movement, mass, and time, Klein's Rome is a collective and definitive portrait of a living, yet ancient city. This is William Klein's second book, and one of his five signature 'city books,' which also include: New York (1956); Tokyo (1964); Moscow (1964) and Torino '90 (1990).
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
William Klein. Rome - The City and Its People. The Viking Press, 1959.
Price: US$994.53 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscribed by William Klein. This is a superb, collectible copy. The book has no faults, other than slight scuffing on the cover. The dust jacket is complete with one closed tear - about an inch long and slight wear to the edges. Scans available on request. Included with the book is a small errata slip and a photograph of William Klein taken in 2009.
Seller: HEATH BOOKS, West Wickham, KENT, United Kingdom
KLEIN, WILLIAM. Rome: The City and Its People (Signed). The Viking Press,, 1959.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed by William Klein. First english language edition. Book itself is Near Fine. Tight binding. Spine lettering bright. Very Good Dust Jacket has a small chip at the top of spine and a repaired tear. A bit of edge wear. Klein's second book. See photos
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Klein, William. Rome: The City and Its People.. The Viking Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the second volume in Klein's acclaimed series of "city" books. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the photographer on the half-title page, "Rome Great Rome William Klein." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. According to Fellini, "this is the best Rome there is and Klein is the best photographer there is. He knows Rome like a book and this is it." "Cheesy, delirious, pure Pop art," William Klein's Rome continues the "raw, kinetic and utterly original" innovations of Life is Good (1956) (Roth, 140-41). His genius resides in an unerring ability to remind "us that much great, serious art is often about play, achieved simply by experimenting with the possibilities of the material. Forget trance and witness-the revels are the thing" (Parr & Badger I:243). Rome is the second volume in Klein's "city" series, "four books of photography which shook the very roots of this medium's young tradition filled with raw, grainy, swirling yet abrupt images, which visually describe these cities in a manner never previously seen before" (Christian Science Monitor).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Photography - Klein, William. Rome (Inscribed Copy). Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1959.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. First French edition of Klein's second bok. One of his four "city" books. Unpaginated. Text in French. Black cloth binding printed in white at spine. A well-thumbed copy, but still in handsome very good condition. Small prior owner name to the table of contents page. The unclipped dustwrapper shows chipping and wear at edges. paper loss at top half-inch of spine area. Fairly typical condition from other copies we have handled. This copy benefits from being INSCRIBRED by the photographer on the table of contents page 'Rome, sweet Rome, William Klein" One of the more sought after photobooks of the period and well represented in the literature of the photobook having been cited in Roth, The Open Book as well as Parr and Badger Volume One.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
KLEIN, William.. ROME. The City and it's people.. New York. Viking. 1959, 1959.
Price: US$5466.25 + shipping
Description: New York. Viking. 1959 4°. Original-Publisher's cloth - Black spine stamped cloth. First edition. Without dust jacket else in pristine condition (no inscriptions etc.) 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
Price: US$6950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First French edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed with black ink: "à Robert, ROME SWEET ROME," signed by William Klein and dated "Rome 1959" on the table of contents page by Klein. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in white on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text (in French, with epigraphs in Italian) by William Klein. Includes notes on the plates. 192 pp., with numerous black-and-white photogravure plates richly printed in France. 11-1/8 x 8-7/8 inches. [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), Michel and Michèle Auer, Collection M. + M. Auer - une histoire de la photographie. (Hermance, Switzerland: Éditions M+M, 2003), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).]. Near Fine (light surface marks to boards, else Fine) in Near Fine dust jacket (numerous 1/8 to 1/2-inch closed tears and chips at top and bottom edges of jacket, repaired with tape and colored ink, and creasing to the upper corner of front jacket flap). Divided into five sections (Roman Citizens, The Street, the Eternal City, Youth, and the Catholic World), each demonstrative of Klein's keen eye for expression, gesture, juxtaposition, movement, mass, and time, Klein's Rome is a collective and definitive portrait of a living, yet ancient city. This is William Klein's second book, and one of his five signature 'city books,' which also include: New York (1956); Tokyo (1964); Moscow (1964) and Torino '90 (1990). Signed by Author.
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.