Palla, Victor & Martins, Costa

Lisboa cidade triste et alegre [1959 1ST EDITION HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET - NICE COPY!]

Círculo do Livro Lda, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Lisboa. Cidade Triste e Alegre. Photographs by Victor Palla and Costa Martins. Texts by Rodrigues Miguéris; poems by Alexandre O'Neill, Armindo Rodriques, David Mourao-Fèrrriera, Eugénio de Andrade, Jorge de Sena and José Gomes Fèrriera. Círculo do Livro Lda., 1959. 174 pp. Quarto. Hardbound in dust jacket. 152 black and white photographs throughout. BOOK CONDITION: Nicer than usual / Very Good Plus; nice tight binding, just a bit off-set; trace of foxing; bump to base of spine near front joint (not affecting text block or any pages); in (fragile) original dust jacket with rubbing, soiling areas of light creasing to panle and 2 areas of professional archival restoration at head and heel of spine with area at head of spine extending about 2 inches across the top margin of rear panel (restoration is noticable when holding the verso if the jacket up against the light). Overall a very collectible copy of an extremely scarce hardcover issue with the the even scarcer original dust jacket.

"Of the many postwar photobooks on European citites, this is one of the best, and its neglect at the time it was published is regrettable. Made by Victor Palla and Costa Martins, both architects, Lisboa is amongst the most complex of modern photobooks in form and content. It took three years to prepare, the authors taking over 6000 photographs. Uniquely for this period, it was initially issued as a partwork, in seven monthly fascicles. Lisboa is particularly notable for using many of the book-making ideas developed by William Klein, and Dutch Photographers like Ed van der Elsken and Joan van der Keuken, and has a vibrant, cinematic feel...an all-singing, all-dancing Euro photobook, a compendium of every design idea rolled into one...the photographs of Palla and Martins are graphic and exuberant...Both as a photographic bookwork, and as a document of city life, it is considerably more than the sum of its parts"--Parr and Badger. Very good + / very good. Item #689
ISBN: B01EXBHMUC

Price: $7,500.00