EXILE'S RETURN

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Some wrinkling to the paper at the front joint with slight splitting, apparently a publisher's defect as the book has never been handled. Near Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase with slight bubbling to the paper. Still in the original shipping box. Berenice Abbott. Quarto (6-1/2" x 9-5/8") bound in cloth-backed illustrated boards with the spine a dark brown natural-finish cloth woven in Holland and the sides covered with gray Fabriano Ingres paper imported from Italy reproducing the front cover of a literary magazine of the 1920s; 306 pages. Introduction by Leon Edel. Illustrated with prints after photographs by Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Andre Kertesz, Alvin Coburn, Walker Evans, and others. Copy #457 of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and by Berenice Abbott on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.