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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.
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.
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$5811.46 + 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.