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It Books, 2009-12-29. Paperback. Used:Good.

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It Books, 2009-12-29. Paperback. Used: Good.

Harper Collins Publishers , pp. 128 . Papeback. New.

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Reprint of the 1974 edition with 32 extra photos by Jon Naar as well as an Afterword in which he reflects on the project and the meaning it has taken on in the intervening decades. A VG+ copy.

It Books, 2009. Paperback. New. 128 pages. 12.25x9.50x0.50 inches.

It Books, 2009. Paperback. New. 128 pages. 12.25x9.50x0.50 inches.

It Books, 2009-12-29. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

The Faith of Graffiti, documented by Mervyn Naar. Text by Norman Mailer. An Alskog Book/Published by Praeger Publishers, New York, New York (U.S.A.), 1974. First Edition. Unpaginated. 10.50x0.50x14.00. Stiff green illustrated paper wrappers with red design and titles in white. Collectible smyth-bound softcover in VERY GOOD condition. Clean, well-used copy with rubs, tiny creases, turned-up corners, and very small loss to the lower corner of the front cover. Strong binding with no reading creases, but spines are rubbed raw and starting to peel a bit at crown.

New York: Praeger Publishers / Alskog Book, 1974. Very Good. New York: Praeger Publishers / Alskog Book, 1974. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Large quarto; publisher's color photo-illustrated card wrappers; [80]pp. color photographs with [16]pp. text insert printed on pale tan stock. Wear to wrapper margins, chip at spine foot, faint surface scratches, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Bookplate signed by Mailer laid in. Photographic/anthropological/journalistic examination of the meteoric rise of graffiti affecting the New York City subway system in an era when almost no car was unaffected. Mailer's on-the-ground approach provides a sympathetic up-close portrait of the taggers: "A-I is talking to CAY 161. That is the famous Cay from 161 Street, there at the beginning with TAKI 183 and JUNIOR 161, as famous in the world of wall and subway graffiti as Giotto may have been when his name first circulated through the circuits of those workshops which led from Masaccio through Piero della… Read More