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Richard Avedon & Truman Capote: OBSERVATIONS
Luzern: Camera Verlag Bucher, 1959. Oversized heavy folio hardcover in original slipcase. 150 pages. Text in German by Truman Capote. Illustrated throughout and printed in Switzerland with fine saturated gravure prints by Camera Publishers, C. J. Bucher in Luzern. Identical in content with the US Simon and Schuster simultanously published. Rubbing to slipcase and to edges and corners of binding. One page with a closed tear, barely visible and else a clean and very good copy overall
First edition, 1st printing, rare with the original slipcase – Enclosed is “Avedon Photographs 1947-1977” with English text by Rosamond Bernier from The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1977, a 16 pages oversized softcover that fits neatly in the slipcase. The American version included in Roth, The Book of 101 Books. Please note: Heavy item that may require extra shipping charges
