About this title: The tritone photographs in this book are based on language which Friedlander found on the walls and in the streets of America. The book starts with an alphabet, goes into numerals and then into sentences - referring to the roots of language itself.
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 665
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781881616054ISBN:1881616053
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1881616053. Hardcover. Folio. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. 1993. 88 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ in VG shape with light shelfwear (dulling to the glossiness of the DJ) present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Photos sent upon request. 665; 0.7 x 14.6 x 14.1 Inches; 88 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 665
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780224032957ISBN:022403295X
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 022403295x. Hardcover. Folio. 1993. 88 pgs. Illustrated. Signed and inscribed by the Lee Friedlander on the title page. DJ in VG shape with light shelfwear (dulling to the glossiness of the DJ) present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Photos sent upon request. 665; Folio 13"-23" tall; 88 pages; Signed by Author. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: D.A.P. /Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781881616054ISBN:1881616053
Description: New. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth, with dust jacket. 212 pp. with 213 tritone reproductions. 14 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches. This first trade edition was limited to 2750 hardbound copies. CONDITION: New in publisher's shrink-wrap. From Booklist, by Gretchen Garner: "Like Friedlander's Nudes, Letters is about seeing photographically and is full of the strange, surreal found imagery, the jarring montages (really superimpositions in space), and the surgical framing that are ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cape, London
Date Published: 1993
Description: 370 x 340 mm, [88] pages with 213 tritone reproductions from Friedlander's photographs. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper. Friedlander photographs 'language itself....The book begins with the alphabet, moves into numerals, and then develops into sentences. The dynamics of this found language, photographed from the streets and walls of America, is heightened by the irregular grid of the book design'. Limited to 2750 copies. Photography. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Zzdap Publishing
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9781881616054ISBN:1881616053
Description: New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Collectible, As new, signed by the author, 1st edition, 1st printing, unnumbered. A rare, pristine copy of one of Friedlander's most monumental books. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DAP, New York
Date Published: 1993
Description: A very good, handsome copy in dust jacket. Cloth, 38 cm, Unpaginated. 213 numbered images. Signed by the photographer on the 'bookplate (#40 of 250) pasted to front endpaper. read more
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