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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.
William Klein. Rome - The City and Its People. The Viking Press, 1959.
Price: US$1001.43 + 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.. 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.
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.