New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976
For this, her first major series, Susan Meiselas, photographed and interviewed dancers, audience members, and stage managers who worked in and visited the strip shows at travelling carnivals in and around New England. Carnival Strippers was published the same year Meiselas joined Magnum Photos.
First edition; (221 x 258 mm, 8¾ x 10¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset; black endpapers, silver paper-covered boards, titles stamped in silver to spine and upper side, head and foot of spine tapped, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, minor wear to extremities, nick with crease to bottom edge of upper panel, light creasing to head and foot of spine panel, rubbing and marking to lower panel, near-fine in an excellent dust-jacket; [ii], 150pp.
The Book of 101 Books pp238-9; Auer Collection 599; The Open Book pp312-3; What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women pp234-5.
First edition; (221 x 258 mm, 8¾ x 10¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset; black endpapers, silver paper-covered boards, titles stamped in silver to spine and upper side, head and foot of spine tapped, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, minor wear to extremities, nick with crease to bottom edge of upper panel, light creasing to head and foot of spine panel, rubbing and marking to lower panel, near-fine in an excellent dust-jacket; [ii], 150pp.
The Book of 101 Books pp238-9; Auer Collection 599; The Open Book pp312-3; What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women pp234-5.
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