Description
Offered here is the true limited first edition of Bermuda Abstracts (Matrix Publications, 1982), a striking modernist photo book in which photographer Graeme Outerbridge transforms Bermuda’s architecture into bold, hard-edge abstract compositions. This is the desirable signed, numbered, slipcased issue produced in a small limitation for collectors.
Key details:
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Limited first edition: one of 500 slipcased copies, bound in Kennett cloth on hand-selected sheets
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Signed and numbered: Copy #99, signed by Graeme Outerbridge and dated ’82
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Publisher / date: Matrix Publications, Providence, Rhode Island, 1982
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Format: square clothbound volume in the publisher’s slipcase (window-cut design)
Condition notes (please view all photos in addition to the notes below):
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Book presents well overall, with toning/handling toning to the light cloth and some expected age/handling wear
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Light toning to page edges/margins; plates appear bright
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Slipcase shows notable corner crushing with edge wear and corner splitting/delamination (see close-up photos)
A scarce, signed limited-issue photo/art book with strong visual impact and clear collector appeal in the photography and Bermuda/architecture genres.
