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KLEIN, William. Rome. Paris: by Sapho for Editions du Seuil, 1959. 4° (275 x 215mm). c.165 black and white photographs; text printed in red and black. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (minor soiling on the cloth). Provenance: William Klein (presentation inscription, in dark-blue fountain pen, to:) -- Georges Sion (author).
FIRST EDITION. A RARE CONTEMPORARY PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KLEIN: in French, 'To Georges Sion. A Rome just as dramatic, perhaps, as New York -- but less desperate -- the proof: she has lasted! William Klein'. An excellent copy in a fine dust-jacket. Early Klein presentation inscriptions are distinctly uncommon. Georges Sion, the great traveller, author and critic, and member of the Goncourt and Académie Royale, wrote a number of travel books, often in collaboration with photographers. Federico Fellini remarked of Rome: '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'. 101 Books, p.143; Auer & Auer 388; The Open Book, pp.178-79.
FIRST EDITION. A RARE CONTEMPORARY PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY KLEIN: in French, 'To Georges Sion. A Rome just as dramatic, perhaps, as New York -- but less desperate -- the proof: she has lasted! William Klein'. An excellent copy in a fine dust-jacket. Early Klein presentation inscriptions are distinctly uncommon. Georges Sion, the great traveller, author and critic, and member of the Goncourt and Académie Royale, wrote a number of travel books, often in collaboration with photographers. Federico Fellini remarked of Rome: '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'. 101 Books, p.143; Auer & Auer 388; The Open Book, pp.178-79.