The Age of Adolescence
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / no jacket. Item #83178
Greybull Press, 2005. First Printing. Signed. 133 pages. Limited Clamshell Box Edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. None of the copies was commercially sold. The Limited Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. Because the publisher went out of business, it is not clear if all of the copies of the Limited Edition were ever completed. The Limited Edition is now rare.
A brilliant production by Joseph Sterling and Dimitri Levas: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted on the recessed center in front, metallic-silver titles embossed on the spine and back, as issued. Photographs by Joseph Sterling. Introduction by David Travis. Original 10 X 14 inch photographic print laid into the box. Matching black clamshell box. Shelfwear and soiling to clamshell box. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its most collectible format, Joseph Sterling's "The Age of Adolescence". One of the best photographic records of The American Teenager.
From 1959 to 1964, Joseph Sterling photographed teenagers, hanging out after school, at drive-ins, in fast cars. The "Age of Adolescence" shows American kids to be both playful and serious, friendly and menacing, cheerful and pensive. Closely identified with the Institute of Design (ID), Sterling has done work characterized by the technical perfection and formal experimentation identified with the Bauhaus-inspired Institute. It is also, sadly, the last book published by Sterling, who died unexpectedly on November 12, 2010. An absolute "must-have" title for Joseph Sterling collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Edition, indicated, stamped, and hand-numbered as such on the front free endpaper, and it is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Joseph Sterling. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a stunningly beautiful 10 X 14 inch original photographic print. The print is very prominently and beautifully archived, numbered, and signed in pencil on verso by the photographer: "486-25 Joseph Sterling Limited Book Edition 11/25".
128 duotone plates, 1 original print. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. C269LL.
Price: $600.00