Observations [1959 1ST EDITION WITH GLASSINE DUST JACKET AND SLIPCASE - FINE COPY]
$1,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · In dust jacket
Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. BOOK DESCRIPTION: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. Hardcover in the fragile original glassine dust jacket housed in cardboard slipcase. Folio Illustrated with photographs by Richard Avedon and text by Truman Capote. 152 pages with numerous black-and-white photographic images throughout. 11x14". Mostly portraits of famous people of the twentieth century. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, bright, clean copy in a Fine original glassine dust jacket showing a crease to lower coner of inner front flap and upper corner of inner rear flap;housed in a Near Fine, solid slipcase showing light toning, rubbing and soiling to panels, edges and corners. Overall a solid, clean and highly collectible copy, especially so with the fragile glassine jacket without any of the typical losses or tears. .
- Publisher: Simon and Schuster
- Year: 1959
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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