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Auction archive: Lot number 23

Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Comments by Truman Capote [cover title

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$204
Auction archive: Lot number 23

Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Comments by Truman Capote [cover title

Estimate
US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$204
Beschreibung:

Title: Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon Comments by Truman Capote [cover title] Author: Avedon, Richard and Truman Capote Place: New York Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date: [1959] Description: 151, [1] pp. Illustrated with gravure reproductions from photographs taken by Richard Avedon throughout. 36x27 cm. (14x10½"), original printed white boards, clear plastic dust jacket, and publisher's slipcase. First Edition. Classic collaboration of portraiture with the famous photographs taken by Richard Avedon and witty write-ups by Capote. Images include noted celebrities of art, music, film, stage and literature, such as: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton Alfred Hitchcock John Huston, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe T.S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Isak Dinesen, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Tears at slipcase spine, a bit yellowed; clear jacket with large chips; volume with a touch of shelf wear; near fine volume in very good slipcase. Item number: 211365

Auction archive: Lot number 23
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 2010
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon Comments by Truman Capote [cover title] Author: Avedon, Richard and Truman Capote Place: New York Publisher: Simon & Schuster Date: [1959] Description: 151, [1] pp. Illustrated with gravure reproductions from photographs taken by Richard Avedon throughout. 36x27 cm. (14x10½"), original printed white boards, clear plastic dust jacket, and publisher's slipcase. First Edition. Classic collaboration of portraiture with the famous photographs taken by Richard Avedon and witty write-ups by Capote. Images include noted celebrities of art, music, film, stage and literature, such as: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton Alfred Hitchcock John Huston, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe T.S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso Louis Armstrong, Humphrey Bogart, Isak Dinesen, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Tears at slipcase spine, a bit yellowed; clear jacket with large chips; volume with a touch of shelf wear; near fine volume in very good slipcase. Item number: 211365

Auction archive: Lot number 23
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 2010
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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