Absent Without Leave

Very good condition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. White stiff wrappers, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Artist’s book, with photographs by Christopher Wool. Unpaginated (336 pp.), with 160 black-and-white plates throughout. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. This first edition was limited to 1000 copies. CONDITION: New in New dust jacket, wrapped in publisher’s glassine paper (from the artist’s archive). Wool’s travel photographs, taken between 1989 and 1993, are here reproduced as low-tech photocopies. Featuring stray dogs, street scenes, architectural details and still lifes, the grainy, high-contrast, nearly abstract work suggests the fleeting nature of travel and the stolen moments that collectively comprise lived experience