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WILLIAM KLEIN
Rome: The City and Its People. New York: Imprimerie Sapho and Imprimerie Administrative Centrale for The Viking Press, 1959. 4° (275 x 215mm). c.165 black and white photographs; text printed in red and black. Errata slip laid-in. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original colour photo-illustrated dust-jacket (dust-jacket with small chips at corners and spine-ends, light wear at extremities).
FIRST EDITION, the US issue, of Klein's second city book. Federico Fellini remarked: 'this book could be a film and someday I hope Klein will do it. Anyhow, 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' (quoted on dust-jacket flap). 101 Books, p.143; The Open Book, pp.178-79.
Rome: The City and Its People. New York: Imprimerie Sapho and Imprimerie Administrative Centrale for The Viking Press, 1959. 4° (275 x 215mm). c.165 black and white photographs; text printed in red and black. Errata slip laid-in. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original colour photo-illustrated dust-jacket (dust-jacket with small chips at corners and spine-ends, light wear at extremities).
FIRST EDITION, the US issue, of Klein's second city book. Federico Fellini remarked: 'this book could be a film and someday I hope Klein will do it. Anyhow, 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' (quoted on dust-jacket flap). 101 Books, p.143; The Open Book, pp.178-79.
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