Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs, 1st U.S. Ed., 1981, HC, Near Fine.

Rauschenberg, Robert. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981. 

English, First American Edition, Near Fine HC, 4to, 12" x 8 1/2", Unpaginated + 122 plates.  

ISBN: 0394520548

Gray paper over boards, stamped black lettering to spine, minor sunning, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring black-and-white photograph to front panel, black lettering to front panel, spine, and interior flaps, 1/2" closed tear to back panel, soiling to bottom edge, minor creasing to back panel, light sunning and wear, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. Unpaginated. Includes an interview and 2 series of black-and-white photographs taken from 1945-1946 and 1979-1980 by American artist, Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008). From inside the dust jacket: "Rauschenberg Photographs is the first publication of a major body of his work; it will be published in conjunction with an exhibit of his photographs at the Centre Beaubourg in Paris."