Sweet Life
Ed van der Elsken
BOO 2504 U
€140,00
| CONDITION & NOTES | |
| Good / Dust jacket has multiple tears along the edges and remnants from cellotape. Some discolouration on the rear. Book is now covered in protective mylar. Interior in Very Good condition. Please note: the binding of Sweet Life is quite fragile, please take care when opening the book fully to avoid any pages loosening. |
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| TYPE | PUBLICATION YEAR |
| Hardcover |
1966 |
| EDITION | LANGUAGE |
| First |
Dutch |
| PUBLISHER | DIMENSIONS |
| De Bezige Bij | 31 x 30 x 3.5 cm |
CONDITION
Good / Dust jacket has multiple tears along the edges and remnants from cellotape. Some discolouration on the rear. Book is now covered in protective mylar. Interior in Very Good condition. Please note: the binding of Sweet Life is quite fragile, please take care when opening the book fully to avoid any pages loosening.
TYPE
Hardcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
1966
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
Dutch
PUBLISHER
De Bezige Bij
DIMENSIONS
31 x 30 x 3.5 cm
Good / Dust jacket has multiple tears along the edges and remnants from cellotape. Some discolouration on the rear. Book is now covered in protective mylar. Interior in Very Good condition. Please note: the binding of Sweet Life is quite fragile, please take care when opening the book fully to avoid any pages loosening.
TYPE
Hardcover
PUBLICATION YEAR
1966
EDITION
First
LANGUAGE
Dutch
PUBLISHER
De Bezige Bij
DIMENSIONS
31 x 30 x 3.5 cm
ABOUT
In 1960, armed with two magazine commissions and a stipend from Netherlands television, Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) and his wife Gerda set off on a fourteen-month journey around the world, from West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan to the United States and Mexico. Six years after their return, he published his travelogue Sweet Life (named after a little tramp steamer in the Philippines): a sprawling, exuberant chronicle of their journey and his encounters with a range of people in the streets, from joyous lovers to destitute down-and-outs. The book itself exhibited a panoply of layout effects: double-page bleeds, crops, printed in deep gravure, and different cover designs for each of the six countries in which it was published.