BECHER, Bernhard and Hilla. Anonyme Skulpturen. [Anonymous Sculptures. A typology of technical buildings.] New York and Düsseldorf: Wittenborn and Co. and Art Press, 1970. 4° (280 x 218 mm). 194 black and white photographs. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (one short tear on the front panel, light wear at the spine head); jacket protected in early, probably original glassine.

BECHER, Bernhard and Hilla. Anonyme Skulpturen. [Anonymous Sculptures. A typology of technical buildings.] New York and Düsseldorf: Wittenborn and Co. and Art Press, 1970. 4° (280 x 218 mm). 194 black and white photographs. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in white, original photo-illustrated dust jacket (one short tear on the front panel, light wear at the spine head); jacket protected in early, probably original glassine.

FIRST EDITION, AN EXCELLENT COPY of the Bechers' influential first major book with which 'the seeds of European photography's future were being sown... it has had an enormous impact' (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.194-95; Auer, p.518; The Open Book, pp.258-59; The Photobook, vol. II, p.266, and cf. vol. I, p.193.