KLEIN, William. Life is Good & Good For You In New York. Trance Witness Revels. Paris: Roto-Sadag [Geneva] for Éditions du Seuil, 1956. 4° (275 x 215mm). With the original booklet of captions, in French, laid-in. 188 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white, original pictorial dust-jacket (dust-jacket chipped at the spine head and with light wear at the corners).
KLEIN, William. Life is Good & Good For You In New York. Trance Witness Revels. Paris: Roto-Sadag [Geneva] for Éditions du Seuil, 1956. 4° (275 x 215mm). With the original booklet of captions, in French, laid-in. 188 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white, original pictorial dust-jacket (dust-jacket chipped at the spine head and with light wear at the corners).

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KLEIN, William. Life is Good & Good For You In New York. Trance Witness Revels. Paris: Roto-Sadag [Geneva] for Éditions du Seuil, 1956. 4° (275 x 215mm). With the original booklet of captions, in French, laid-in. 188 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, spine lettered in white, original pictorial dust-jacket (dust-jacket chipped at the spine head and with light wear at the corners).

FIRST EDITION. AMONG THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHOTOBOOKS, AND 'ONE OF THE FIRST GREAT POP BOOKS' -- 'a quintessential monument to the American cultural scene' (The Photobook). Complete with the original booklet of captions laid-in. 101 Books, pp.140-43 ('matchless, a time bomb that's never been defused'); Auer, p.365; The Open Book, pp.164-65; The Photobook, vol. I, p.243 ('raw, kinetic, and utterly original').

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