Devillers Phillipe (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The dust jacket has minor tanning, chipping and a 8cm tear on the spine. The page edges and cover pages have minor foxing. The front page is stamped. 317 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (204-227mm).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Black cloth. Book has a small scuff to upper right of front, two faint lines of discoloration to coth to front and back. otherwise book is looking nearly as new, very clean and sharp and tight. Dust jacket has small chips and wear to corners, some ragged tears at bottom of spine area of jacket, a few light spots of rubbing. still presentable and clean even with wear to corners. Jacket now protected in an archival cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (stated), first printing, 1970. Clean and tightly bound with fine contents and photographic plates. Slight wear to the covers, otherwise near fine.

First Edition. 4to. 29cm x 22.5cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in orange to spine, a clean copy with only very light wear, in a bright, clean dustjacket with some scuffing to the edges, light creasing to the upper edge of the rear panel and a touch of sunning to the spine. A very good copy. Internally clean, some light spotting to the front flyleaf that doesn't seem to be repeated anywhere else. Illustrated throughout with Riboud's candid black and white photography, detailing all aspects of life in the North from life in the factories and schools, to military training, and anti-aircraft emplacements manned by 70 year old men. The text by Phillipe Devillers attempts to give a timeline and historical structure to help make sense of the contemporary situation. The Holt Rinehart blurb to the front flap states "The first book to be published in the United States to show the country as it is." Riboud travelled extensively in Vietnam as part of his work as a photojournalist for Magnum.…