Larry Clark
First Hardcover Edition with the Dust Jacket
Tulsa. Photographs by Larry Clark. First hardcover edition. It was first published in softcover by Lustrum Press in 1971; though still dated 1971, this hardcover edition was self-published by Clark in 1979. Quarto. Unpaged. Clothbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black and white reproductions. Rapoport Printing. Good plus in a good minus dust jacket.
So familiar by now, yet its influence cannot be understated! "The initial shock of Tulsa was that it was photographed from inside the story, and this changed everything. It created the possibility of a thoroughly implicated self-consciousness in documentary, a way to collapse the distance and include the observer all the way in, till death do us part, and it worked because of the mysterious and undeniable relation between photographs and death..." David Levi Strauss in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books.
Some scuffing, scratches and discoloration to the boards. Lower corners rubbed. Internally, hinges sound. Binding tight. Tanning to page edges. Photographs clean and bright. The DJ is lightly soiled and rubbed w/ heavy wear and numerous creases as well as repaired tears to the covers, edges and to the top and bottom of the spine. Longer repaired tear to the DJ back cover. Corners and edges with short tears. Scuffed and rubbed.