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(MISRACH, RICHARD). Misrach, Richard & Reyner Banham. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Good +. 106pp, profusely illustrated in color. With a biography, bibliography and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with traveling 1987 exhibition, Richard Misrach's third book "Desert Cantos" features achingly beautiful photographs of the "man-mauled" American desert, including many of the great "Event" and "Desert Fire" images. The prescient essay is by the late, great Reyner Banham. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon 1987 hardbound first edition (which the photographer states was limited to five hundred copies) additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Richard Misrach" in black ink on the half title page bearing a small previous owner's name in ink on the front pastedown whose dust jacket shows some mild wear, typical sunning to the lettering along the spine, and a scrape along the crease of the front flap with some attendant paper loss. It has been priced accordingly. 0-8263-0927-5 Inventory Number: 019742