N.Y. MELANCHOLIA. 43 Photographs by René Groebli(/43 Fotobilder by René Groebli. SIGNED, NUMBERED)

First edition of 400, signed and numbered. This is number: 295. The first two hundred copies were given to the sponsor of this publication – the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Schweiz) AG. So only two hundred copies were for sale. The photographs of New York have been taken in 1978, when René GROEBLI rented a room for two months in Hotel Holland, on the 22 nd floor of a building in the 42 nd Street, and, a selection of these photos have been combined with landscape photographs from the South of France.

• Zürich, self-published, 1999.
• In a square clamshell box (320 x 315 mm.), 19 loose sheets (300 x 900 mm.), folded in three: 16 with with one, two or three beautifully printed images. 2 with a text, one in English and one in German. And a last one with the colophon. Fine copy.