Signed in the year of publication. Inspired by Chekhov's short stories, A Shimmer of Possibility is one of the defining photography books of the early 21st century. It consists of 12 separate volumes, each containing a photographic sequence showing moments of everyday life in America. The 12 books are uniform, but the sequences vary in length from a single image to 60 pages of photographs made at a single street intersection.
In 2011, it was awarded the Paris Photo Book Prize for the most significant photography book published since the fair began in 1996.

First edition, vol. 1 signed and dated in black pen on the first page; 12 vols. (318 x 242 mm, 12½ x 9½ in); 167 colour photographs; plain endpapers, coloured cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in white on spine and upper sides, each vol. with the original glassine wrapping, publisher's printed card box, box lightly worn with mark from removed shipping tape, only vol. 1 opened to be signed the other vols. remain unopened, a fine set in a lightly worn box; [376]pp.