Greek Shop Signs
Book Description
One of 1500 copies published in English (3,500 were done in Greek). Scarce in the UK. The book is in very good condition, save for a small amount of minor spotting around the outer edges of the pages when viewed as a block and to the edges of the endpapers. There's a gift inscription on the dedication page. The dust jacket is rubbed along the top and bottom edges, while a couple of tears (for example, one about 3 centimetres long in the top left corner of the front cover) have been repaired on the reverse. There are other minor signs of shelfwear and handling.
Dealer Notes
An absorbing book from one of the greatest countries in the world, with more than 400 photographs of all sorts of shop signs, plus circuses and carts and 'casselakia' (portable cases). There's a good introduction, while other thoughtful and useful materials include biographical notes, remarks about lettering and a two-page essay on an "enchanting" builders' yard in Athens: "this work which is a normal happening becomes in texture and appearance a work of the imagination. And this, in all the languages of the world, is called Poetry." For anyone who has ever been to Greece, or never has and wants to, this is a tremendously evocative book.
Author
George Vakirtzis
Date
1974
Binding
Hardback, brown boards, gilt lettering and decoration
Publisher
Papastratos (Athens)
Illustrator
George Vakirtzis, Panayotis Gravalos, Kostaz Tzimoulis, Elias Dekoulakos (photographers)
Condition
Very good
Pages
400
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