Coney Island 1969-1986 [SIGNED - 2002 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING IN RARE SLIPCASE]
Trebruk, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED COPY in RARE SLIPCASE Trebruk and Magnum Editions, 2002. Hardcover housed in cloth slipcase (limited slipcased edition produced by Brown's Editions, London - most likely an edition of 100 copies issued with a signed print - lacking from this copy). First Edition, First Printing. 108 pages with 54 full-page black-and-white illustrations. 9 x 13 inches. On the outskirts of the five boroughs sits Coney Island, the world famous pleasure beach that has been the summer destination for New Yorkers since its heyday in the 1890s. Toward the end of the 1960s, just one year after he first picked a camera, Bruce Gilden took the subway train through Brooklyn to capture the sunbathers, the weekenders, and the sideshow freaks who stroll the Boardwalk and sprawl on the sands of Coney Island. As the area's reputation slipped, Gilden continued to take pictures. The result is this book, which gathers together a selection of his Coney Island photographs from the late 1960s up through the late 1980s, some of which are paired with handwritten recollections, all of which testify to Gilden's ability to eke out the characters and eccentricities of daily life. SIGNED by Bruce Gilden on the first page. BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine; a solid, clean copy, inside images bright with overopening along gutter of first page (merely cosmetic, binding remians solid and tight); in Very Good white cloth slipcase showing moderate rubbing and soiling to panels and edges. Rare SIGNED s;ipcased edition. Near fine. Item #5585
ISBN: 0953890120
Price: $850.00