FRIEDLANDER, Lee

The American Monument [Signed]

New York: The Eakins Press, 1976. First trade edition, first printing. Oblong folio. Original blue-green cloth album by Robert Burlen & Son, closed with three plastic screws. Minor toning to cloth as often, generally a fine copy. Item #411034

Signed by Friedlander on the front flyleaf. One of 2,000 copies of the trade edition (there was also a special edition of 150 copies containing an original print signed by the photographer, and a deluxe edition of 50 copies containing ten original prints). "A big, ambitious collector's item containing 213 meticulous gravure plates and packaged like a nineteenth-century travel album. rounding up everything from Plymouth Rock to a plaque commemorating the Pony Express in Salt Lake City" (Roth, p. 236). Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, 2001. Parr & Badger vol. 2, p.28.

Price: $2,400.00