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(LEVITT, HELEN). Levitt, Helen & James Agee. New York: Horizon Press, 1981. First Edition Thus 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. 1/4 Vellum Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 90 b&w illustrations. Designed by Marvin Hoshino. "A Way of Seeing" is the late Helen Levitt's classic presentation of New York street photography accompanied by an incisive essay by James Agee. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies only, this example is from the 1981 Horizon Press deluxe edition that was completely redesigned from the 1965 Viking first printing; containing a revised text along with twenty-four additional images. It is bound in one quarter gilt-stamped-vellum-over-gilt-stamped blue boards, and is housed in a blue linen slipcase. A most handsome copy (whose 1965 first edition is cited on pages 252-253 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 214-215 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", pages 178-179 of "The Book of 101 Books", and pages 92-96 of Horacio Fernandez' "New York in Photobooks") NUMBERED (31/250) AND SIGNED "Helen Levitt" in black ink on the colophon, as issued, showing some sunning to the slipcase along its extremities. It has been priced accordingly. 0-8180-1422-9 Inventory Number: 016847