San Quentin Point by Baltz, Lewis - 1986

Good. Aperture, 1986. Stated First Edition limited to 1200 copies. Hardcover. Oblong - 10 ¾ x 11 ¼ ”. 58 photo-lithographic reproductions, 12 pp text (English and French). Very good in a good dust jacket and good clear acetate cover with printed title. Moderate rubbing and creases to the dust jacket extremities with a 1” wide open tear to the front panel of the dust jacket near the head of the spine. Moderate rubbing to the acetate cover with moderate toning along the spine and top edges. Old price in pencil partially erased from the half title page otherwise the interior is unmarked and solid.

Berlin: Verlag Zwolftes Haus, , 1986. Rilegato tela, sovracoperta in acetato (cloth, acetate dust jacket). Ottimo (Fine). 58 fotografie in bianco e nero di Lewis Baltz. Testo di Mark Haworth-Booth in inglese, francese e tedesco. 8vo (cm 27,5x28,5). pp. 140 n.n. Ottimo (Fine). I ed. di 1200 esemplari (I edition of 1200 copies). Un celebre quanto raro volume di Lewis Baltz relativo alle immagini realizzate negli anni 80 nella San Rafael Bay californiana, area conosciuta ai più per essere occupata da uno dei più vecchi e famosi penitenziari americani.Baltz was included in the seminal 1975 exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Artists featured in the show examined the drastic transformations that industrialization and suburbanization had wrought on the environment. Baltz's 1985 portfolio, San Quentin Point, focused on the detritus spread around the as-yet-undeveloped terrain of Marin County in San Francisco.

Millerton, New York: Aperture in association with Verlag Zwolftes Haus, Berlin, 1986. First edition. Baltz, Lewis. Square 4to., 58 b&w photographic plates, [12] pp. text. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket, with printed acetate over wrapper, which is moderately rubbed, as usual. Limited to 1200 copies. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. The effects of urbanization on the landscape by this pioneer of the New Topographics.

Millertown, (New York) / Berlin: Aperture / Zwölftes Haus, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. Oblong quarto. Boards trifle bowed else fine in an about fine pictorial dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear, and modestly rubbed, near fine printed acetate jacket with a small scratch on the lower panel. Inscribed to Gus Blaisdell and Janet Lewis on the title page: "For Janet + Gus - Lewis Baltz." Additionally with a 6" x 4" sheet of corner-punched black paper with a note in silver ink: "I think you're nifty, too. LB," presumably in Baltz's hand. Blaisdell provided the essay for the previous book in Baltz's trilogy, *Park City*, and Janet Lewis was the former wife of Yvor Winters. One of 1200 copies printed. The concluding work of Baltz's "immensely influential" trilogy that defined the New Topography movement, with a nice association (Parr & Badger).