FIRST EDITION, The Essential Edward Hopper, Justin Spring, Illustrated, 1998

New York: Harry N Abrams, New York, 1998. F/NF. An excellent introduction to the art of Edward Hopper. First Edition. First Printing. The small book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and illustrated boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($12.95) with light vertical crease to back flap. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 112 pages. 6 x 6".

Hopper's landscapes and interiors have affected everyone from noir film directors to abstract expressionists. His paintings conveying the loneliness of contemporary life were painfully apt in the 1930s during the Great Depression — and they are still meaningful today.