Iran. Elements of Destiny. Designed and photographed by Roloff Beny
Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
Quarto, 392 pages with '437 plates, 39 halftones and 26 line engravings'.
Brown cloth decorated and lettered in silver; top corners slightly bumped; bottom edge lightly marked; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (lightly sunned on the spine).
Edited by Shahrokh Amirarjomand. Loosely inserted is a large folding map of Iran. 'The product of Roloff Beny's sixteen years of exhaustive journeys and research in all provinces to explore and evaluate the intricate visual aspects of Iran's technological developments ... a modern portrait of one of the world's great nations, the meeting place of East and West, a state that has emerged as a vital link in the community of nations' (from the dustwrapper blurb, written on the eve of the last revolution). [2 items].
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