Messaggio Dalla Camera Oscura [RARE 1949 1ST EDITION WITH JACKET AND OBI - FINE]

Torino: Pressa la Casa Editrice Chiantore di Torino, 1949. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket with printed yellow wrap-around band/obi. First Edition. Large quarto. Text in Italian. 14 x 12 inches 443 pages with numerous color and black and white photographic images throughout including all 15 tipped-in color plates. Widely considered one the best Italian photobooks of the 20th century, Mollino's important survey of photography from its inception to the date of publication, including reproductions of his own work, and photographs by Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and very early Richard Avedon, among others. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean cipy showing toning to pastedowns/endpapers, light rubbing and wear to the edges and corners of covers; in a Near Fine complete dust jacket showing light wear to edges and corners, a couple of small closed tears, one with some associated creasing to upper left margin of front panel and light sunning to spine (2 archival tape repairs to jacet verso at left upper margin of front panel and to head of spine).; in a Near Fine wrap-around band/obi showing signs of light soiling. Overall a complete and highly collectible copy of this important monograph (jacket and obi present nicely in a new, clear, brodart protector) . .…