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SUDEK, Josef (1896-1976). Fotografie. Introduction by Lubomir Linhart. Prague: The State Press for Belles-Lettres, Music and Art, 1956. 8° (237 x 169 mm). Photogravure portrait, and 232 black and white photographs on 113 sheets, 6 folding. Original linen, lettered in relief on the upper cover and spine, typographic dust-jacket (light soiling and yellowing to jacket). Sudek's signature dated Prague, 9 February 1957.
SUDEK, Josef (1896-1976). Fotografie. Introduction by Lubomir Linhart. Prague: The State Press for Belles-Lettres, Music and Art, 1956. 8° (237 x 169 mm). Photogravure portrait, and 232 black and white photographs on 113 sheets, 6 folding. Original linen, lettered in relief on the upper cover and spine, typographic dust-jacket (light soiling and yellowing to jacket). Sudek's signature dated Prague, 9 February 1957.

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SUDEK, Josef (1896-1976). Fotografie. Introduction by Lubomir Linhart. Prague: The State Press for Belles-Lettres, Music and Art, 1956. 8° (237 x 169 mm). Photogravure portrait, and 232 black and white photographs on 113 sheets, 6 folding. Original linen, lettered in relief on the upper cover and spine, typographic dust-jacket (light soiling and yellowing to jacket). Sudek's signature dated Prague, 9 February 1957.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY SUDEK NEAR THE TIME OF PUBLICATION. 'ONE OF THE FINEST BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY EVER MADE. In its classic, clean design... it is the perfect vehicle for the full range of Sudek's romantic atmospheric work' (101 Photobooks). Auer, p.362; 101 Photobooks, p. 144; Regards á travers le livre 115.

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