Editorial
BooksIssue N. 001

Books

The book as object: monographs, editions, sequencing, paper, binding.

A 1950s French clothbound photography book on a Paris cafe table beside an espresso cup.
It had to be made in Paris because America would not make it. The first edition spoke French, with five novelists keeping the photographs company.
Illustrative image. Not the 1958 Delpire edition of Les Américains described.

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