MODEL, Lisette.
Designed by Marvin Israel with a preface by Berenice Abbott.
Stock Code 111720
Millerton, New York, Aperture, 1979
Edna 'Bennie' Bennett, was a photographer, writer, naturalist, an editor of US Camera and contributor to Aperture, and later a used bookseller on Long Island, and a friend of Lisette Model and Berenice Abbott.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title; folio (377 x 231 mm, 14¾ x 9 in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, light toning to edges, occasional light foxing; endpapers grey on one side cream on the other, photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, printed in grey and black, cocked, corners tapped, dust-jacket printed in imitation of boards, handling marks, light foxing to verso, minor wear to edges, an excellent copy; 112pp.
The Book of 101 Books pp242-3; Auer Collection p617; What They Saw: Photobooks by Women pp254-5.
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