Taschen-  Alfred Wertheimer's hardback Elvis and the Birth of Rock & Roll book

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Taschen- Alfred Wertheimer's hardback Elvis and the Birth of Rock & Roll book.  Book is NEW still in plastic wrapping.
Trailing Presley like a shadow, Wertheimer took nearly 3,000 photographs of Presley, creating a penetrating portrait of a man poised on the brink of superstardom. Extraordinary in its intimacy and unparalleled in its scope, Wertheimer's Elvis project immortalized a young man in the very process of making history.
Now available as a TASCHEN standard edition, Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll collects Wertheimer’s most remarkable Elvis shots from that magical year, along with a selection of his historic 1958 pictures of the star being shipped off to an army base in Germany. Each chapter is illustrated with a poster by Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest letterpress print shops in America, which created many early Elvis posters in the 1950s.
Book is a large coffee table hardback book at 15"X11" and heavy, so local Reno, Truckee, Carson, Lake Tahoe area only.   retail - selling almost half price.