Observations

by Truman Capote; Richard Avedon

$1,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

E-378: Simon Schuster. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Published by Simon and Schuster, Inc, New York. 1959. 151 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Signed and inscribed with a drawing by Richard Avedon on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. Slipcased. Slipcase has wear present (slipcase is chipped and worn to the extremities). Bound in paper covered illustrated boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Observations is the culmination of a creative collaboration between Avedon and Alexey Brodovitch that began in 1945, when the imperial art director hired the 22-year-old photographer as the youngest member of his team at Harper s Bazaar (Roth, 148). Avedon s later adoption of a seamless white studio background for most of his fashion and portrait photography was at least partly inspired by Mr. Brodovitch s characteristic use of white space, a means of making the subject seem suspended and weightless on the page (Times). Not long after Capote and Avedon finished their work on Observations, they again collaborated in documenting the story of a brutal murder in Kansas, In Cold Blood (1965). E-378; Folio 13 - 23 tall; 151 pages .

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 1959
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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