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Published by Praeger Publishers / Alskog Book, New York, 1974
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Very Good. New York: Praeger Publishers / Alskog Book, 1974. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Large quarto; publisher's color photo-illustrated card wrappers; [80]pp. color photographs with [16]pp. text insert printed on pale tan stock. Wear to wrapper margins, chip at spine foot, faint surface scratches, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Bookplate signed by Mailer laid in. Photographic/anthropological/journalistic examination of the meteoric rise of graffiti affecting the New York City subway system in an era when almost no car was unaffected. Mailer's on-the-ground approach provides a sympathetic up-close portrait of the taggers: "A-I is talking to CAY 161. That is the famous Cay from 161 Street, there at the beginning with TAKI 183 and JUNIOR 161, as famous in the world of wall and subway graffiti as Giotto may have been when his name first circulated through the circuits of those workshops which led from Masaccio through Piero della Francesco." Of course then-Mayor of New York John Lindsay was not of the same mind, having declared the first (fruitless) war on graffiti in 1972.
Published by Mathews, Miller, Dunbar, London, 1974
Seller: Concept Books, Veldhoven, Netherlands
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket. About 38 doublespread color photographic plates by Jon Naar. Design by Mervyn Kurlansky. With the 8 page essay by Norman Mailer: The faith of graffiti. Dust jacket with light wear and a few small closed tears. Spine of dust jacket sun faded. Some faint spots on the first page of the essay. 35 x 27,5 cm. Scarce.