May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 135

Price Realized: $ 461
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
GOSSAGE, JOHN.
Berlin in the Time of the Wall, A History Book.
Text by Gerry Badger. Illustrated with numerous full-page reproductions of Gossage's dark photographs of Berlin's landscape. Folio, gilt-lettered black cloth with an original photograph mounted on the front and rear covers; white-printed acetate dust jacket; matching slipcase. limited edition, one of 50 numbered copies signed by gossage and issued with a photograph.
(Bethesda, Maryland): Loosestrife Editions, 2004

Additional Details

with--"Checkpoint Charlie." Silver print, 10 3/4x8 3/4 inches (27.3x22.2 cm.), with Gossage's signature and edition notations 49/50, in pencil, on verso. 1986; printed 2004.


The silver prints that are mounted on the front and rear covers of this title were uniquely chosen for each of the 50 limited edition copies.