Moore, Andrew; Levine, Philip

Detroit Disassembled [SIGNED - 2010 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - NICE COPY]

Damiani, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED COPY Damiani, 2010. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing (with no other printings listed on the colophon). 128 pages with numerous photographic images throughout by Andrew Moore; Essay by Philip Levine. Among postapocalyptic landscapes, photographer Andrew Moore locates both dignity and tragedy in the city's decline, his camera recording a territory in which the ordinary flow of time--or the forward march of the assembly line--appears to have been thrown spectacularly into reverse, as the carnivorousness of our earth seeps into and overruns the buildings of a city that once epitomized humankind's supposed supremacy. Poet Levine, 84, with knowledge of the city born of a lifetime, bred in the bone, provides words that sing of the wonder that Detroit's moment was in its grandeur, and the sad inevitability of this, and all things we humans make, tragic, accursed with their need to return to the dust from which they have sprung inherent in the making. SIGNED by Andrew Moore and essayist Philip Levine and dated "2010 Strand" (evidently signed by both authors at the Strand Bookstore, 2010 in NYC). BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a tight, clean copy, bright images throughout in a Near Fine dust jacket with rubbing and edgewear including a 1/2 inch closed tear to lower right corner of front panel (looks nice in a new clear brodart cover). SIGNED. Fine / near fine. Item #5723
ISBN: 8862081189

Price: $249.95