Over seven hundred National Geographic photographs of all fifty states, run to Taschen’s XL format: 792 pages, 27 by 37 centimetres, 6.13 kilograms — a book you put on a table rather than a shelf. David Walker’s essay opens it and every state section gets its own preface. The jacket is stamped “250th Anniversary Edition”, which appears nowhere in the title, the catalogue copy or the structured data. $150, in stock.