Title: Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon Comments by Truman Capote (cover title) Author: Avedon, Richard & 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. (Folio) 14½x10, original printed white boards and publisher's slipcase. First Edition. This copy inscribed on half-title: "Dec 2. 1959 / Sincere compliments to Nan Duskin by Robert Trigere / AND t. [Capote (printed)]". Robert Trigere was the brother of Pauline Trigere, who at the time was managing her fashion house in New York. Nan Duskin was a fellow designer. The "t." and flourish after the inscription are possibly in Capote's hand. 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: Slipcase worn at edges with a few dampspots; wear to spine ends, light rubbing to covers; pale staining to front pastedown and opposite page; still very good. Item number: 157666
Title: Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon Comments by Truman Capote (cover title) Author: Avedon, Richard & 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. (Folio) 14½x10, original printed white boards and publisher's slipcase. First Edition. This copy inscribed on half-title: "Dec 2. 1959 / Sincere compliments to Nan Duskin by Robert Trigere / AND t. [Capote (printed)]". Robert Trigere was the brother of Pauline Trigere, who at the time was managing her fashion house in New York. Nan Duskin was a fellow designer. The "t." and flourish after the inscription are possibly in Capote's hand. 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: Slipcase worn at edges with a few dampspots; wear to spine ends, light rubbing to covers; pale staining to front pastedown and opposite page; still very good. Item number: 157666
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