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This sumptuous, large-format volume of overblown musings by Mailer is accompanied by a fabulous portfolio of images, which will still challenge your notions of who Marilyn really was.
Illustrated with over 100 color and black and white photographs by some of the best, including Avedon, Arnold, Beaton, Lockwood, Schiller and Woodfield.
Every time you think you know her, another photo supplies a completely different fantasy image; no wonder she turned to a few little pills to calm things down.
Jacket has slight wear, otherwise a fabulous book.
270 pages. Hardcover.

New York: Knopf, 1971. First edition, third printing. Very Good/good. The third printing of a classic short story by Mann, which first appeared in 1954, after he had returned from the States to settle in Switzerland. A morality tale of sensual awakening, as a German family shake off the war years and rediscover their pagan roots. Jacket has some light surface dirt, otherwise a sound copy.

New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1973. First printing. Near Fine. 304 pp. A major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum established Dubuffet with a new credibility. 300 works from all over the world were assembled for this limited edition catalogue, of which there were only 8000 copies. Some age fading to edges and spine, remaining internally fine.

London: Weidenfeld & Niicolson, 1963. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Stated first edition. Book has slight spine lean, one or two spots of foxing to edge and a former owner's name and date to first page. Jacket has minor edgewear, else clean and bright. Miller's breezy tone, as his unscrupulous characters drift through life, taking what they want with total disrespect for the ordinary people, is still shocking, and this book remains a defining text for the rebellion of the post-war beats.

New York: William Morrow, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Witha preface by Lawrence Durrell, this outpouring of affection from Miller in his late eighties to a much younger confidante is, in a sense, his last book. He is at times the amorous lover, but mostly an old wizard passing on a life time's experience of being true to himself.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. This is a charming large-format re-issue of an earlier work by Jan Morris, consisting of her classic descriptions of Spain, with many new illustrations by Cecilia Eaves and a selection of Spanish paintings to illustrate the national characteristics.

New York: Viking Press, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. One of John Mortimer's most successful tales, with mouth-watering visions of a Tuscan villa, all summer long. However, several snakes are stirring in Paradise and it doesn't do to tangle with the natives...