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TOM BARIL - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(BARIL, TOM). Baril, Tom. Los Angeles: 4AD Publishing, 1997. First Edition 1/2500. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. 170pp, 81 tritone illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. The first in a proposed series of photography books to be published by cult record-label 4AD's owner Ivo Watts-Russell, this extraordinarily lovely Tom Baril monograph proved to be the last as well. Designed by v23 partner Paul McMenamin, the photographer's first book features a tritone image pasted down to the front cover. An internally most handsome example SIGNED "Tom Baril" in black ink on the first preliminary showing sunning to the brown cloth along the rear cover adjacent to, and along the length of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. 0-9657450-0-7 Inventory Number: 025678