Avedon. Photographs 1947-1977 [INSCRIBED]

Richard Avedon. Preface by Harold Brodkey.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. New York. 1978. First edition. Inscribed by Avedon in ink to the front free endpaper - 'For Curtis Sa?? Avedon Berkeley, 89'. Hardback, quarto; glossy paper-covered illustrated boards, printed acetate dust jacket. [176 pages.] Over 120 monochrome plates. English. 365 x 275mm. 2kg. 9780374232009. Very good, in very good dust jacket; slight shelf wear, slight bump to front top forecorner, slight browning to acetate as usual, acetate dust jacket in much better condition than usually found; a couple of small marks to prelims.

An anthology of the finest photographs taken by Richard Avedon in his career up to 1977, inscribed by the photographer. The subjects of his images read like a Who's Who of the fashion and entertainment world - Lauren Bacall, Brigitte Bardot, Cecil Beaton, Marisa Berenson, Marlene Dietrich, Givenchy, Audrey Hepburn, Bianca Jagger, Loulou de La Falaise, Sophie Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Yves Saint Laurent, Jean Shrimpton and Gloria Vanderbilt. These portraits are interspersed with his fashion photographs. The cover features Marella Agnelli to the front and 'Dovima with Elephants' to the rear. The book accompanied a retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.