The Sochi Project (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Signed and dated "2012" by Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen, in silver ink, to the front free endpaper. Edition of 750 copies. Blue paper covered boards, with the title on a bookplate to the upper side (as issued), in a photographically illustrated folded dust jacket. Photographs by Rob Hornstra. 8vo (21cm x 15cm), pp.48 including one fold-out, 28 colour photographs. From the publisher: "Sketchbook Series # 02 - In Life here is serious we describe the North Caucasus' most popular national sport, wrestling. Every town and village has a wrestling school. North Caucasians always win medals at the Olympics. In the Caucasus wrestling is not just a sport, it is an integral part of the culture and history of a region paralysed by war and violence.'Wrestling is serious, because life here is serious.'". Signed by Author(s).…