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Burke, Bill. Fine in near fine jacket. Essay by Raymond Carver. Preface by Andy Grundberg. 32 full-page black-and-white photographic plates. New York: Ecco Press, (1987). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
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As New in As New jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the half-title page by Burke. Hardcover. Cloth, with dust jacket. Photographs by Bill Burke. Edited by Constance Sullivan. Preface by Andy Grundberg. Essay by Raymond Carver. Designed by Katy Homans. 64 pp., with 32 black and white plates. 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches. Out of print. As New in publisher's shrink-wrap (slit open for signature). From the Introduction by Andy Grundberg: Such is the almost biblical cast in Burke's portrait theater, in which the signs of a bedrock, blue-collar America are assembled for what seems a final curtain call." From the publisher: "This collection of photographs forces us to confront the realities of these strangers' existence. Andy Grundberg compares these pictures to the portraits of Southern tenant farmers made by Walker Evans, to Mike Disfarmer's Ozark mountain people, and to Richard Avedon's contemporary portfolio, In the American West." Signed by Author.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" (USA) Stated first edition. No markings, Fine in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to head of spine panel. Cloth, 62pp, B&W full-page photo portraits. Burke's photos are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the INternational Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American Art. (2.5 JM HOJ 301/3.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Ecco Press, New York, 1987. 59 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Gathers portraits of ministers, drifters, amputees, jockies, circus performers, night people, family members, miners, couples, musicians, and fisherman, and discusses the nature of portraiture; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
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