Friedlander, Lee: American Monument

Eakins Press, 1976, First Edition, Oblong Folio, Gilt decorated grommet bound cloth covered boards. Mint in original shipping carton.

First edition, first and only printing. Hardcover. Blue-green cloth-covered boards, with title stamped in black on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. 77 pp., with 213 black-and-white reproductions printed by The Meriden Gravure Company made from half-tone negatives by Richard Benson. 12*17 inches. Bound by Robert Burlen and Son. This first edition was limited to 2000 copies. A special binding was designed so that individual sheets (on fine, heavy-stock paper) could be removed and exhibited. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006). ]