Berlin in the Time of the Wall - Hardcover

Berlin in the Time of the Wall. The Photographs of John Gossage. Putting Back the Wall [BOTH VOLUMES SIGNED BY GOSSAGE]

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ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
(Santa Monica, CA, USA)

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Fine condition. First edition. 1/2000 case bound copies. Folio. 461, -595 (3)pp. Original half cloth over photo-illustrated boards with red and white lettering on cover, gilt on spine; in original acetate jacket, printed with white lettering. Volume two in black cloth with black lettering on debossed gray field of cover, in original color-illustrated dustjacket. Both volumes housed in original plain cardboard slipcase with blue, red and white lettering on label pasted across spine and front and back covers. Designed by John Gossage. Signed J. Gossage on half-title of volume one, this with eighteen frontispiece photographs and title page printed in three colors with half moon photo at center. Volume two is signed by Gossage underneath statement "I will not give up until I have found Potsdamer Platz! I cannot find Potsdamer Platz. Here? This cannot be" (Page 5). An elaborate series of b/w photographs of the Berlin Wall convincingly capturing the tragic role "The Wall" played in postwar German history. Whether it's the graffiti or the desolate atmosphere of abandoned buildings, the barbed wire or the modest table settings of still inhabited buildings nearby, bullet holes in protective mesh or utensils left behind, the impressions left from these photographs are dramatic reflections of the tragedy called "The Berlin Wall." Fact sheet relating to the Berlin Wall and publication history of John Gossage at rear of volume one. Small salmon color leaflet with text by Gossage bound into volume two, and translations of texts by Thomas Weski and Gerry Badger in full size salmon color leaflet laid in. Artikel-Nr. 51064

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