NY: Aperture, 1975. First edition. [134]pp with [60] b&w plates. Oblong 4to. Greyish-brown cloth titled in blind and silver; dust jacket. Light shelfwear; a touch of foxing to textblock edges near spine; toning to edges of leaves. Very good in a price-clipped jacket with moderate edgewear, surface chipping at spine ends.
First printing of the breakthrough work by Czech photographer Josef Koudelka (b. 1938), a collection documenting Romani populations in Slovakia and Czechoslovakia in the mid-1960s; "gritty black-and-white photography in the classic photojournalistic style," but animated by a "full-blooded mythologizing rhetoric" uniquely Koudelka's own (Parr & Badger, v1,p. 230).
