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Illustrated from b&w photographs by Bruce Davidson printed in sheet-fed gravure by the Nissha Printing Company, Kyoto, Japan. Cloth, pictorial jacket. No. 2 of 50 deluxe copies signed by the photographer, including an original gelatin silver print photograph signed by Bruce Davidson all presented in a black cloth-covered drop-back box (from a total edition of 150 signed copies). Signed by Bruce Davidson at colophon, as issued. Photograph, 'Mike's Tattooing' pencil-signed by the photographer on reverse. "In the spring of 1959, I met a group of teenagers in Brooklyn who called themselves 'The Jokers'. At the time there were an estimated thousand gang members in New York City. A Youth Board had been formed which sent 'Youth Workers' out to dissuade gangs from fights and to help socialize them. It was after reading a news-paper article about a skirmish in Prospect Park that I decided to find the gang and enter 'the cool world' of their lives." - Artist's statement. The Cool World was a 1963 feature film directed by Shirley Clarke about African-American life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem.