Mare by Rossi, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. GABRIELE BASILICO (illustrator). 1st Edition. BOOK AND JACKET AS NEW SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER AS NEW BOOK AND JACKET. EXCEPT FOR THREE SMALL ON BACK PANEL OF JACKET, price reduced significantly due to three spots on an otherwise unmarked back pael of the dust jacket. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to fine condition. First Italian edition. Signed "Gabriele Basilico 7-IX-96" on half-title. Large Quarto. 118 (1)pp. Original anthracite cloth with white lettering on cover and spine, in photo-illustrated dustjacket, gray and black lettering on spine. Black endpapers. Design by Maurizio Zanuso. Texts by Aldo Rossi and Roberta Valtorta. Considered one of the most important books in the history of photography. Extraordinary collection of seventy-six b/w photographs, many of them double page, showing wide, topographical views of harbors and their environment, developed for an exhibition at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne in 1990. ".this formal strategy actually works in an anti-formal way, stressing the informational value of imagery." (Parr & Badger, The Photobook, Vol. II, pp. 62/63.) Text in Italian. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, very light creasing and front cover lightly rubbed. Book in fine condition.