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LAND-WEBER, ELLEN. The Passionate Collector. With an Introduction by Walter Benjamin.
NY: Simon and Schuster. (1980). - Oblong 4to, pictorial white wraps (lightly soiled; corners lightly creased; small label removed from front wrap) with B&W illustrations on both wraps. 127 pp. (remainder mark on fore-edge). Profusely illustrated in B&W. Very good. First edition."...One day I realized that to be a photographer is to be a collector....I decided to collect collectors--photographically, of course...." [Author's Preface]. Over a two-year period, Land-Weber traveled to 40 states and photographed 152 collectors whose passions included beer cans, angels, anvils, escutcheons, dolls, horses, insects and maps of Transylvania, among many others.
Offered for US$ 20.00 by: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. - Book number: 1340
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