This book was issued in the 'Flying Artbooks' series curated by Germano Celant to coincide with an exhibition of Bernd & Hilla Becher's photographs at Galleriaforma, Genoa, which opened on 19 April 1973, their first exhibition in Italy. It is a collaboration with Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, which showed the Becher's work in February of the same year, having first showed them at Sonnabend, New York, in 1972.

This copy has Peter van Beveren's ownership signature with an ink stamp dated 11. Okt 1973. Peter van Beveren established and ran the Art Information Centre (1969-1993), a non-profit organisation in Middelburg, Holland, which collected printed material related to contemporary art.

First edition, number 53 of 1000 copies; 8vo (208 x 150 mm, 8¼ x 6 in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, minor toning to edges; white photo-illustrated wrappers printed in black, spine toned and lightly soiled with minor wear to extremities, foot cocked, library number in black ink on spine and upper wrapper, Peter van Beveren's ownership signature and date stamp on first page, a very good copy; [48]pp.

Becher: Printed Matter 28.