Lady Lisa Lyon by Robert Mapplethorpe; Bruce Chatwin - 1991-01

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 128 p. by Robert Mapplethorpe ; text by Bruce Chatwin. ports. ; 29 cm.; A Studio book. 1st hardcover. DJ fine.

Blond & Briggs. GF654 1983, softcover, good copy

New York: The Viking Press, (1983). First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Robert Mapplethorpe. Pictorial wraps, 9" x 11". A revealing portrait of the first Women's Bodybuilding Champion with text by Bruce Chatwin and photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Viking Press A Studio Book. Collectible - Acceptable. 1983, 1st, black hardcovers, light mildew spots to covers, mildew odor to book, light dampstain to spine heel area, interior is clean and sound, dust jacket is edgeworn and torn, dampstain to dj bottom rear, dj soiled.

New York: A Studio Book / The Viking Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Photography by Robert Mapplethorpe. Text by Bruce Chatwin. Foreword by Sam Wagstaff. Square quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket. Photographic study of a female bodybuilder. Mapplethorpe's first book.

New York: Viking Press,, 1983. First edition, first printing, signed and inscribed by both Mapplethorpe and Lyon: "for Bill, L.A. '83". Mapplethorpe's "whirlwind tour of one lady's anatomy" was shot over the course of three years. Lyon was a California bodybuilder and photographers' muse, who won the first Women's World Pro Bodybuilding Championship in 1979, and modelled for Helmut Newton and Marcus Letherdale. Quarto. Original photographic wrappers, titles to spine and front wrapper black and white. Illustrated throughout. Tail of spine a little bumped, mild rubbing to extremities. A-near fine copy.

New York: A Studio Book/ The Viking Press, 1983. First edition, wrappered issued, of Mapplethorpe's first book. Illustrated in black-and-white photographic reproductions. 128pp. Square 4to. Wrappered issued [published simultaneously in cloth]. Covers very lightly rubbed at tips of corners, else a fine, bright copy. First edition, wrappered issued, of Mapplethorpe's first book. Illustrated in black-and-white photographic reproductions. 128pp. Square 4to. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lisa Lyon, on the half-title page.