AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: RICHARD AVEDON
by Avedon, Richard
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0679409211
- ISBN 13
- 9780679409212
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1993. 1st edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. 1st edition, stated. A Near Fine copy in Very Good + dust jacket. Folio, unpaginated, illustrated with over 280 b&w photographs, many full page. Bound in the publisher's brown cloth with red title on the front board and spine; clear acetate dust jacket with red lettering on the rear flap. Small bump on the fore edge of the rear board. A three inch scratch on the front panel of the dj, else Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in Very Good + dust jacket.
Synopsis
RICHARD AVEDON (b. 1923) was the editor, with his classmate James Baldwin, of The Magpie , the literary magazine at De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx. In 1942 he joined the photography department of the U.S. merchant marine. He was a staff photographer at I>Harper's Bazaar (1951-1965) and Vogue (1966-1988), and he collaborated with James Baldwin on Nothing Personal (1964), a book about the civil rights movement. In 1992 he became the first staff photographer at The New Yorker .
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30359
- Title
- AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: RICHARD AVEDON
- Author
- Avedon, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0679409211
- ISBN 13
- 9780679409212
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
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