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In a collection of austere portraits of personalities including Dwight Eisenhower, Truman Capote, Rose Mary Woods, and Andy Warhol, Avedon demonstrates his aim to retain the sitter's identity and solidity of being without using illusionistic effects
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Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, NY:, 1976
ISBN 10: 0374236380
ISBN 13: 9780374236380
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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black and white photographs throughout (six fold-out). First edition. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (age toned and rubbed), price clipped dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 51887
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Portraits
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. Large Quarto (12" x 9"). Unpaginated. Original dustjacket, spine lettered in gray over white cloth with black lettering on spine. Four frontispiece portraits or, if you will, four photo-illustrated "departmentalized" title pages. The essay by Harold Rosenberg is illustrated with photographs atop text. Extraordinary b/w full page photographs of a large, most illustrious group of celebrities framed by edges of film strips. Four of the photographic takes are fold-outs with Igor Stravinsky, The Chicago Seven, Andy Warhol and Factory Members, and the Mission Council. DJ sunned and discolored along edges and spine. Slight bumps at lower fore-corners, otherwise a fine copy. Seller Inventory # 51470
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Seller: HM Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket shows some yellowing around edges from age as well as some soiling, scuffing and discoloration from age and as a side effect of being all white. There is a half inch closed tear on the lower front edge. Interior is clean but does have some yellowing around the edges. Seller Inventory # mon0000017081
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Portraits
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ISBN 13: 9780374236380
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Stated First Edition. Quarto (30cm); 136 unnumbered pages. Publisher's dust jacket with price clipped; boards bound in light grey cloth with dark grey stamping to spine. Black-and-white photographs throughout; four fold-outs. Dust jacket bumped lightly at spine ends and corners; significant toning to top edge and spine; some superficial scratches throughout. Boards likewise bumped and toned at edges; otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Overall Very Good or better. Features full-page portraits of Willem de Kooning, Truman Capote, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andy Warhol, and Groucho Marx, among others; thumbnail portraits of Marianne Moore, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Marilyn Monroe, and Ezra Pound, among others. Seller Inventory # 40213
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an essay by Harold Rosenberg. A collection of black and white photographs of various celebrities and the various people who posed for Avedon. Includes several gatefolds. A very good copy in cloth boards with slight foxing and in a near fine price clipped dust jacket dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 203627
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Richard Avedon: Portraits
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Seller: Ethan Daniel Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. Full page black-and-white reproductions with four fold-outs. Faint toning to edges of dust jacket. Inside pages are clear and bright without marks, inscriptions or fading. Binding is firm. S247. Seller Inventory # EDB07300
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Portraits
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Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. 4to. White cloth with grey spine lettering, dust jacket. Extensive full-page illustrations (3 foldouts). Very good/very good. Touch of foxing to top 1" of otherwise near fine binding and top page edges; jacket faintly age toned; tiny abrasion to one image (only). A tight and nice first edition of this portrait collection by the controversial portrait and fashion photographer. Seller Inventory # 49517
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Portraits : Richard Avedon
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Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket, DJ chipped at bottom of spine, Includes essay "A Meditation on Likeness" by Rosenberg. Seller Inventory # 220514-MB39
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ISBN 10: 0374236380
ISBN 13: 9780374236380
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Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Avedon, Richard - Photographer (illustrator). First Edition. stated First Edition. photographs of A surprising cross-section of individuals - e.g., a fold-out of the chicago 7 trial 1968-9 , The Mission Council - men perhaps too important to become famous, Andy Warhol & members of the Factory. I could not locate any smiling faces among these posed photos. This copy is unmarked. DJ unclipped. 9" x 12" white cloth boards in white DJ (with clear mylar removable protector) Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 010825