Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Wrappers. 4to. About very good copy, lower right corner of front wrapper little turned.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CHATWIN, Bruce; MAPPLETHORPE, Robert. LADY LISA LYON. The Viking Press (1983), New York, 1983.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Pictorial wraps, 9" x 11". A revealing portrait of the first Women's Bodybuilding Champion with text by Bruce Chatwin and photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Bruce Chatwin (text) - Robert Mapplethorpe (photography). LADY LISA LYON. Viking Press, 1983.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Rippling to the pages from dampness, water staining to end leaves and marginal staining to first few pages at front and rear. Inscribed and signed on first blank leaf by the subject, female bodybuilder Lisa Lyon "For Mary Lov- I couldn't have done it without you. XX all my love - (signed) NY'83". Photos supplied on request. Copies of the book signed by Lisa Lyon are uncommon. This appears to be an actual presentation copy. NOTE: the stock photo is of the softcover NOT this hardcover edition.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Mapplethorpe, Robert. Lady: Lisa Lyon by Mapplethorpe. The Viking Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing. Simultaneously published with the hardcover version. 8vo. 128 pp. B/w photo plates on glossy page stock. Introductory essay by Bruce Chatwin. Ships fast with tracking.
Seller: A Book Preserve, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover issue. Photography by Robert Mapplethorpe. Text by Bruce Chatwin. Foreword by Sam Wagstaff. Square quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket. Photographic study of a female bodybuilder. Mapplethorpe's first book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 128pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Michael Shroyer. "Lady (Lisa Lyon)" is brassy and playful, strong and seductive, discreet and thoroughly uninhibited. Lady is a host of contradictions, and Robert Mapplethorpe's provocative portrait of Lisa Lyon, dynamic personality and first Women's Bodybuilding Champion, entices you to re-examine your ideas and ideals of "female". In these haunting photographs - made over a period of two years - Lyon embodies her concept of Woman of the Eighties, neither masculine nor feminine, but feline. Writer Bruce Chatwin introduces Lyon and Mapplethorpe in a style characteristically witty and adroit, and photography connoisseur Sam Wagstaff adds his own valuable observations of the duo and their joint accomplishment." A brand new, most handsome example of the hardbound first edition of this iconic work additionally INSCRIBED "for tom & dick - love / Lisa Lyon / NY '83" in the year of publication in black ink on the half title page.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, small 4to, pp. 128; illustrated throughout; fine in original black cloth and in fine dust jacket. Dedicated by Mapplethorpe to Patti Smith.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
MAPPLETHORPE, Robert; Bruce Chatwin.. Lady Lisa Lyon.. New York: Viking Press, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$954.02 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, signed and inscribed by both Mapplethorpe and Lyon: "for Bill, L.A. '83". Mapplethorpe's "whirlwind tour of one lady's anatomy" was shot over the course of three years. Lyon was a California bodybuilder and photographers' muse, who won the first Women's World Pro Bodybuilding Championship in 1979, and modelled for Helmut Newton and Marcus Letherdale. Quarto. Original photographic wrappers, titles to spine and front wrapper black and white. Illustrated throughout. Tail of spine a little bumped, mild rubbing to extremities. A-near fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, wrappered issued, of Mapplethorpe's first book. Illustrated in black-and-white photographic reproductions. 128pp. Square 4to. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lisa Lyon, on the half-title page. Wrappered issued [published simultaneously in cloth]. Covers very lightly rubbed at tips of corners, else a fine, bright copy Illustrated in black-and-white photographic reproductions. 128pp. Square 4to First edition, wrappered issued, of Mapplethorpe's first book.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
MAPPLETHORPE, Robert. Lady Lisa Lyon. Viking, New York, 1983.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Foreword by Sam Wagstaff and text by Bruce Chatwin. Illustrated throughout with numerous full- page black and white photographs of bodybuilder/dancer/actress Lisa Lyon. 128pp. Thin 4to, black boards, d.w. New York: Viking Press Studio Book, (1983). First Edition. A fine copy in near fine dust wrapper. Very scarce hardcover edition. This copy is inscribed, dated and signed in full by Mapplethorple to noted theater critic John Simon.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Mapplethorpe, Robert; Chatwin, Bruce. Lady Lisa Lyon. Viking Press, 1983.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A truly lovely copy of the first edition in dust jacket. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe and his subject, Lisa Lyon. Laid in is a belly band stating "Personally Autographed for You From B. Dalton" Foreword by Sam Wagstaff and with text by Bruce Chatwin.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Foreword by Sam Wagstaff and with text by Bruce Chatwin. A collection of beautiful black and white photographs of bodybuilder and model Lisa Lyon. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by both Mapplethorpe and Lisa Lyon on the half title page. A lovely copy of the much less common cloth issue of one of Mapplethorpe's best books that is very uncommon signed.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. SIGNED by Robert Mapplethorpe and Lisa Lyon on the half-title. Fine in trade-size pictorial printed wrappers. (128pp. ) (9" X 11") Rare signed by the duo. ; Studio Book; 9" X 11"; 128 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.