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Super Bowl XL Opus Limited Edition
Walter Iooss
Krause Publications
December 2006
On Sale: November 21, 2006
850 pages
ISBN: 1905794010
EAN: 9781905794010
Hardcover
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For 40 years, millions of fans have watched the ultimate
celebration of the game of football: the Super Bowl. Super
Bowl XL Opus, a massive, stunning new publication, is the
ultimate tribute to this legendary sporting event.
Chronicling Super Bowls I to XL, cinematic in style, Super
Bowl XL Opus brings readers closer to the action than any
publication has ever done. The images are truly
breathtaking, the text is written by some of America's
finest writers, and the quality and sheer scale of the Opus
are totally unique. At 20" x 20", 850 pages, and weighing in
at over 80 lbs, this is the heaviest sports-related book
ever published. The Opus is limited to a total edition of 20,000. The MVP
edition is numbered 1 to 400; the Limited Edition is
numbered 401 to 20,000. Every edition contains a microchip
encrypted with codes unique to each Opus. This guarantees
that the Opus is authentic and protects the value of your
prized possession. Every copy of the Opus, Limited or MVP edition, is hand-sewn
and bound, covered in the finest quality leather, and
presented in a wood-construction clamshell-style case
covered in screen-printed silk. Included are over 150,000
words from America's finest sportswriters, among them Dave
Anderson, Red Smith, Jim Murray, Dan Jenkins, Roy Blount,
Jr., and David Halberstam. Excerpts from the biographies and
memoirs of Bart Starr, Joe Namath, and Jerry Kramer, among
others, are also included. The 1400 spectacular images, many
previously unpublished, span the entire history of the Super
Bowl. The photographs were taken by such legendary lensmen
as Walter Iooss, Jr., Neil Leifer, Michael Zagaris, and
Heinz Kluetmeier. Unpublished photographs by Barton
Silverman, the 1969 Jets team photographer, include images
of the incredible homecoming of MVP Joe Namath. Plus, an 80”
x 20” gatefold of MVP portraits by Walter Iooss, Jr., shot
on a 20” x 24” Polaroid camera, captures the heart and soul
of the players who posed for them at Super Bowl XL. There is yet another feature of the Super Bowl XL Opus that
is truly unique: the ultimate Super Bowl Game Chart. The
most comprehensive and detailed game chart ever created, it
not only details every play of every Super Bowl, but by
cross-referencing player rosters and recording the role of
each player on the field, the reader is able to track the
ball and really experience the flow of the game in a way
that has never been achieved before.
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