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Avedon, Richard; Baldwin, James. Nothing Personal. Atheneum, 1964.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of this classic Avedon/Baldwin. Series of celebrity portrait photos by Avedon, with text by Baldwin. Book design by Marvin Israel; editorial assistance by Marguerite Lamkin and David Baldwin. Printed in Switzerland. A good copy in the original white boards stamped in silver and black. Wear to spine (spine and boards rubbed particularly at edges; some cracking to hinges; ink gift inscription; text block just bumped at lower corners). [ca. 100] pages (unpaginated).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Richard Avedon; James Baldwin. Nothing Personal. Atheneum, 1964.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: White boards, with black titles on silver inset background, are sturdy but water stained along spine and edges. Binding tight. Text and photos are unmarked with no rips or creases, but water stained and moderately rippled on several pages at beginning and end of book. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. No slipcase. Photos available upon request. Shipping may be extra due to weight.
Seller: Read Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Backstrip present but just barely hanging on, last page laid in and loose. No jacket or slipcase. oversized and overweight. A74 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$666.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: folio. unpaginated. numerous b/w illus. (some fold-out illus.). bds. (covers soiled, extremities slightly rubbed). slipcase (surface abrasion on rear cover, soiled & worn, spine split). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Richard Avedon; James Baldwin. Nothing Personal. Atheneum, E-378, 1964.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Folio. Atheneum Publishers, New York. 1964. Unpaginated approximately 88 pgs. Illustrated with 52 full and double-page b&w photo illus. , 7 b&w images on fold-out. Signed and inscribed by Richard Avedon (as Dick) on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. Slipcased with silver label present to the boards of the slipcase. Slipcase worn and lightly foxed. Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present present to the extremities (light soil present to the extremities of the boards). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1963-64, former high school friends Richard Avedon, at the time one of the worlds most famous photographers, and James Baldwin, best-selling novelist and essayist and a leading literary voice in the American civil rights movement, collaborated on Nothing Personal, a book about the state of life in America. Avedons subjects range from civil rights icons, to intellectuals, politicians, pop singers, patients in a mental institution, and ordinary Americans, all carefully juxtaposed, cropped, and tightly sequenced. Here, the American Nazi Party contends with poet Allen Ginsberg, and a weary General Eisenhower gives way to the sway of Malcolm X. Depleted mental institution patients call out for human warmth, and are followed by the embrace of mother and child. Baldwins four-part essay offers a critique of a society that is disconnected, unjust and divisive, and therefore in the midst of an existential crisis. In a highly personal and pertinent testimony, he writes about his own experience of harassment by a racist police officer in his native New York City. Yet Baldwin, like Avedon, ends his work with the inescapable need for and power of love. Designed by legendary art director Marvin Israel, Nothing Personal is a triumph of minimalism. An oversized book in its own white slipcase, the striking placement of both photographs and text revolutionized the design and packaging of photography books. E-378; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.