NOTHING PERSONAL
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin: NOTHING PERSONAL. New York: Atheneum, 1964. Folio. Silver and black embossed paper covered boards. Publisher's slipcase. Unpaginated. Plates. A very good copy. White boards bright with bottom spine tip lightly bumped with resultant splitting one-inch up the rear gutter. Spine top also lightly bumped with a 1.5-inch split along the front gutter. The silver and black emboss is sharp and crisp. Housed in a good or better example of the original publisher's slipcase that is lightly scuffed and rubbed with mild edgewear and splitting. Structurally very sound, and a much better example than normally found. "From two of the greatest artists of our time -- James Baldwin, author, and Richard Avedon, photographer - comes this brilliant and superbly moving portrait of America today..a compelling personal statement about the heart, mind and soul of a troubled nation."
10.5 x 14.5 hardcover book with 92 pages and 64 black and white gravures, 2 fold out pages, some double page images. Avedon's classic second book introducing a cross section of American society from the famous (Marilyn Monroe, The Everly Brothers and President Eisenhower) to the forgotten (an ex-slave and asylum inmates). 25 pages of text by Baldwin and some 70 photographs including Malcolm X, George Wallace, George Lincoln Rockwell, DAR, Dorothy Parker, and among others. Book design by Marvin Israel; editorial assistance by Marguerite Lamkin and David Baldwin; Engravings supervised by Emil Buhrer; printed in Lucerne, Switzerland by C.J. Bucher.
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