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Naked City
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Naked City
Naked City

WEEGEE

Naked City

New York: Essential Books, 1945

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with photogravure reproductions of Weegee's photographs of New York City.

Quarto. Original cloth, original photo-pictorial dust jacket. Significant chips and creases to fragile dust jacket. Rare signed. 

$1,200

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