The Democratic Forest

New York: Doubleday, 1989. First United States Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 176pp. Oblong quarto [26 cm x 29 cm] Light gray cloth over boards. With a minor slant to the spine, and very subtle dust soiling to the top edge of the text block. In the illustrated dust jacket, with a couple of tiny chips to the edges of the spine. A monumental work consisting of many color photographs made during the eighties by this distinguished photographer. The book includes one hundred and fifty images from this vast project, which has been sequenced in an almost autobiographical narrative, starting in Eggleston's familiar landscape of Tennessee and the Mississippi Delta.