Living Egypt. Photographs by Paul Strand. Text by James Aldridge. First edition. MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1969. Quarto. 105 Photographs, 155 pp.
"Strand, with Aldridge's help, has tried to extract the quintessence from Egypt. They both set out to make modern Egypt comprehensible...They are mainly concerned with the underlying evidence of what Egypt is, and what it is trying to become."--from the dust jacket. Beautifully printed in gravure.
Near Fine. Publisher affixed small ISBN stickers on front and back of title page, the one on the front has fallen off leaving a residue and the one on the back is loose. One plate has a printed vertical stripe. Pages show some yellowing as usual; small Wittenborn Art Books sticker on bottom of rear endpaper; . Dust jacket has three-inch closed tear on front repaired with tape from rear; dust jacket is price clipped with minor chipping. |
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