Lens [published in]: Film Culture

Frank Kuenstler (contributor). "Lens" [published in]: Film Culture. No. 33. New York: Film Culture, [Summer 1964]. First edition. Quarto (10.5 x 8.125 inches; 266 x 207 mm.). 45, [1, blank], [3-10], 11-91, [1, blank] pages ("Lens" published without the two preliminary blank leaves and pages [1-2], with only a printed black circle, found in the separate edition). Full-page illustration on page [24]; eight double-sided plates with photographic illustrations, included in the pagination (pages 25-40). Publisher's side-stapled binding in the original wrappers; all edges of the text block trimmed; no endpapers. Spine very slightly askew, minor vertical crease down the backstrip; edges very lightly worn; faint pinkish discoloration and some light soiling in the margins of the rear wrapper. Very good. Subscription mailer laid in. Lens was "[a] book so extraordinary that it was completely unnoticed at the time (of publication)" (Kostelanetz, A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, accessed online). z