Moscow

Folio (345 x 254 mm), pp.[xviii], [172]. 139 black-andwhite photographs printed in gravure, texts by Harrison E. Salisbury and Klein. Original white cloth, spine lettered in red and black; top and bottom edges lightly sunned, bottom corner of upper side bumped. Original white dust-jacket printed in black and red; lightly rubbed and toned, closed tears to upper panel at head and foot of spine, a couple of nicks to top edge of lower panel. Blindstamp to front free endpaper.

First edition. Moscow was published in the year that Leonid Brezhnev succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union. In his introduction Salisbury declares that the people of Moscow ‘know that the moments for relaxation, for gaiety, for ease and comfort, are rare and may be fleeting. They enjoy them while they may and to the fullest. Such a moment in history is now occurring. And this is the moment and the Moscow that these photographs depict.’

Roth, A. et al. Open Book, pp.204-5; Auer, M. and M., 802 photo books, p.436.