On Photography
Sontag, Susan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Hardbound. SOLD.
Sontag, Susan. Delta Books, 1977. Softbound. $18.
Two contrasting formats—one with boldfaced title one with thin—of Sontag's classic on, according to the flap copy, the 'wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence of the photographed image', exploring lensmen from Atget to Arbus. Cover designer Jacqueline Schuman, who here incorporates a frame-within-a-frame mid-19th century daguerreotype, is also noted for her wallpaper-inspired covers for E. P. Dutton's Barbara Pym series and the Deco-influenced Colette titles published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Noonday imprint.
Hardbound copy's spine is tight, but has a slight lean and some foxing to the edges; its interior is clean and unmarked; its jacket is price-clipped and has some areas of edge-wear and creasing. Softbound copy has a tight, square spine with a clean, unmarked interior and some cosmetic creasing to front cover and spine.
