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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Goldin, Nan - 1986

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Goldin, Nan - 1986

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

by Goldin, Nan

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New York: Aperture, 1986. First edition. 144 pp. Oblong quarto. Blue cloth backstrip over blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to lower board edges, else fine. Parr & Badger note the book, "like most of the great photobooks, is an honest, troubling, passionate, deeply poetic mirror held up to our times," and Roth calls it perhaps the most influential photography book since Diane Arbus' 1972 monograph. Parr/Badger v2, p. 39. Roth pp. 252-253.
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  • Publisher Aperture
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1986

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THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY

THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY

by Nan Goldin

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New York: Aperture, 2012. Revised Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (144 pages). As-new, in publisher’s original shrink-wrap. First published in 1986.
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

by Goldin, Nan

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Sixth Printing
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Aperture. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth first edition has light rubbing to spine ends and points. Jacket shows very light wear along edges. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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(New York): Aperture Foundation, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Nan Goldin. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holbron and Suzanne Fletcher. Oblong 4to. Pp. 144. Illustrated with 125 color plates. Bound in blue cloth, letters blindstamped on front cover, in gilt on spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket. A solid copy with dust jacket showing a trifle fading to spine, light rubbing. (Please see photos.). First printing of the first edition of Goldin's groundbreaking collection documenting her life amid the gritty East Village No Wave scene. Includes a few photos of illustrious figures from that scene, including doomed lovers Cookie Mueller and her husband Vittorio at their wedding, not long before both died, victims of the AIDS epidemic.The most important photo book of its decade. In his New York Times review, Andy Grundberg wrote, "What Robert Frank's 'The Americans' was to the 1950's, Nan Goldin's 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency' is to the 1980's."Dust… Read More
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

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New York: Aperture, 1986. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Goldin, Nan. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher. Illustrated throughout with gritty color photographs of Goldin and her circle of friends behaving badly. 144 pages. Slim oblong 4to, blue cloth-backed boards, d.w. (some very light scuffing). New York: Aperture, (1986). True first edition of Goldin's influential and now classic first monograph. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> --Parr and Badger II, p. 39; Roth p. 252-253.<br/> <br/>
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

by GOLDIN, Nan

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First
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9780893812362 / 0893812366
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New York: Aperture, 1986. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Goldin, Nan. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher. Illustrated throughout with gritty color photographs of Goldin and her circle of friends behaving badly. 144 pages. Slim oblong 4to, blue cloth-backed boards, d.w. (some very light scratching). New York: Aperture, (1986). True first edition of Goldin's influential and now classic first monograph. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> --Parr and Badger II, p. 39; Roth p. 252-253.<br/> <br/>
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.

by Goldin, Nan

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New York: Aperture, 1986. First edition of Goldin's masterpiece. Oblong octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 125 color photographs. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher.
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

by Goldin, Nan

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First Edition
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New York: Aperture, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Hark Holborn, and Suzanne Fletcher. Nan Goldin's breakthrough first book. Roth 101. Tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, textured paper boards, gilt lettering, black endpages, frontispiece. Oblong 8vo. 144pp. Illus. (color plates).
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Ballad of Sexual Dependency [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION issued with 5 x 7 inch print & magazine - FINE]

by Goldin, Nan

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Aperture, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. New. Aperture, 2020. Softcover magazine issued with a SIGNED 5" x 7" color print (print is HAND-SIGNED on the verso by Nan Goldin). SOLD OUT LIMITED EDITION. CONDITION: Fine/New (the set).
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency [SIGNED - 1986 HARDCOVER 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - FINE COPY]
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency [SIGNED - 1986 HARDCOVER 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - FINE COPY]

by Goldin, Nan

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fine
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First Edition, First Printing
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Hardcover
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780893812362 / 0893812366
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Aperture, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. SIGNED COPY New York: Aperture,, 1986. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Hark Holborn, and Suzanne Fletcher. Oblong quarto. Original dark blue cloth-backed boards, blue paper to sides, titles gilt to spine and blind to upper board. With the photographic dust jacket. 120 colour photographs in the text. SIGNED/INSCRIBED with place and date by Nan Goldin on the title page: "Sept. 6. 2005 / The Pavillion / Dear Dr. Khorus - / Thank you for / being the only one / not to 'Gas light' / me. You gave me so / much. I hope we meet / again. xx Nan". BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine brodart-protected dust jacket showing hints of contact with moisture on verso of jacket near upper and lower margins of spine (noticeable only when observing the jacket verso). SIGNED
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