WEEGEE’S NAKED CITY, First edition, 2nd large printing 1945 w original dustjacket

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“To You, the People of New York.”: Weegee’s photobook masterpiece illustrated with 239 powerful, gritty black-and-white photos. “one of the great documentary photobooks… ‘Naked City’ is essentially a nocturnal book, to be put alongside Brassaï and Brandt… Beneath its Rabelaisian tough-guy exterior, this is a book with heart” (Parr & Badger I:145)

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Weegee (Arthur Fellig): Naked City. FIRST EDITION, Second Large Printing . New York: Essential Books / Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 1945. 8vo in the original tan cloth with black lettering and the original somewhat worn dustjacket with tears and some pieces not there but overall still good looking and not priceclipped. Now protected from further harm in acid-free archival (removable) mylar. 246 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w gravure printed photographs. Inside clean and overall a very good copy

FIRST EDITION, Second Large Printing (stated on the preserved original jacket), rare with the dustjacket. Attractive copy

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WEEGEE'S NAKED CITY, First edition, 2nd large printing 1945 w original dustjacket