Self-Portrait. Book People Picture Themselves. From the Collection of Burt Britton

by BRITTON, BURT

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Issued largely paperbound, this is a copy of the scarce hardbound issue. Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with two 1/8” tears to the top edge. A collection of self-portrait drawings by writers and other literary folk from the collection of Burt Britton, created during his days as a bookseller at New York’s famous Strand Book Store. Some of the more than 600 self-portraits include Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael McClure, John Gardner, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote, Borges, John Fowles, John Cage, Woody Allen,William Styron, Philip Roth, Joseph Heller, etc.

• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 1976
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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