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Ex Libris. Photographs and Constructs [WITH SIGNED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH 73/100]

Gibson, Ralph

New York: powerHouse Books, 2001. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Signed on verso of photograph "73/100 Ralph Gibson 2000." Quarto. 142 (2)pp. Original black cloth with red and blind-stamped lettering on cover, red on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, red lettering on spine; housed in matching black cloth slipcase. Red endpapers. Photo-illustrated half-title. Frontispiece. Title page printed in red and black. "Ex Libris is a book about books, a lexicon of signs, letterforms, shapes, and images that inducts the viewer to an imaginary ideal library comprised of masterworks spanning the breadth of history–from the dawn of language to the digital age. In Ralph Gibson's stunningly beautiful and exquisitely rendered photographs, the handwriting of Bach, Balsac, and Kafka, as well as the earliest forms of typography from ancient Roman stone carvings to the Gutenberg Bible are redefined as an iconographic testimony to the power of the written word." (Publisher). Very light wear along edges of dustjacket and slipcase, else fine. Near fine to fine condition. Item #49589
ISBN: 1576871142

Price: $900.00