144 pp. Oblong quarto. Blue cloth backstrip over blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to lower board edges, else fine. Parr & Badger note the book, "like most of the great photobooks, is an honest, troubling, passionate, deeply poetic mirror held up to our times," and Roth calls it perhaps the most influential photography book since Diane Arbus' 1972 monograph. Parr/Badger v2, p. 39. Roth pp. 252-253. Seller Inventory # 2161

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Publisher: Aperture, New York

Publication Date: 1986

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First edition.

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Triolet Rare Books specializes in modern literature and avant-garde movements, with a focus on poetry, modernism, surrealism, fine printing, livres d'artistes, and other idiosyncratic revenants. We welcome the opportunity to assist collectors and librarians in developing and fulfilling their particular goals. We maintain want lists and are always happy to discuss the potential pathways of book collecting with prospective clients. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

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