Pennsylvania Coal Mine Tipples

Sq. 4vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth boards with white lettering to spine. In dust jacket. Some scratches to lower panel of jacket. Otherwise fine. *** 99 duotone plates of clandestine coal mines in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Pennsylvania. They were built with wooden mineheads (known as ‘tipples’). Hella and Bernd Becher photographed these structures in 1974/75 and 1977/78. They are published here for the first time.