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. Richard Avedon: Portraits. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: White cloth. Unpaginated. Profuse bw plates. A very nice copy of this early Avedon title. VG/VG exlibrary with only a small label at the base of the dustjacket (none on book) and a label inside the rear cover on the pastedown from the Visual Studies Workshop (VSW)

Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.

Richard Avedon. Portraits. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 57 full page black and white photographs, including fold-outs. Tight binding, clean pages. Lacking the dust jacket. Includes over fifty portraits of celebrities, writers and artists from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, including Marilyn Monroe, William F. Buckley, Igor Stravinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ezra Pound, the Everly Brothers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean Genet, Truman Capote, J. Robert Oppenheimer, President Eisenhower and many more. Four of the photographic takes are multi-page fold-outs with Igor Stravinsky, The Chicago Seven, Andy Warhol and Factory Members, and the Mission Council. The final images in the book are portraits of his dying father, Jacob Israel Avedon, taken between October 1969 and August 1973. Includes an introductory Essay by Harold Rosenberg. Large format, unpaginated.

Seller: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.

Richard Avedon Harold Rosenberg. Richard Avedon Portraits. Farrar Straus & Giroux (NY), 1976.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Farrar Straus & Giroux (NY) 1976 First Edition, First Printing. Very Good + in cloth hardcover binding with some toning along the edges, also a small stain on the bottom edge of the boards near the corner in a Very Good DJ with toning on the edges. 12 x 9 inches. Illustrated with Avedons black and white full page plates.

Seller: Chris Grobel, Arlington, TX, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard (photography); Harold Rosenberg (essay). Portraits. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Large Quarto (12" x 9"). Unpaginated. White dust jacket lettered in gray over white cloth with black lettering on spine. Illustrated with full page photographs (a few folding) of a large, most illustrious group of celebrities framed by edges of film strips. Spine of d.j. lightly age toned and cloth binding a bit foxed. The essay by Harold Rosenberg is illustrated with photographs atop text.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

AVEDON, Richard.. Portraits.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [New York, 1976.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Illustrated throughout from photographic portraits. Folio, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slight tanning to the edges of the boards; clean, tight and sound in a jacket with slight dust-soiling and very minor use.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

AVEDON, Richard.. Portraits.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,, NY:, 1976.

Price: US$80.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Black and white photographs throughout (six fold-out). First edition. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (age toned and rubbed), price clipped dust jacket.

Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1st edition, 1976.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover with dustjacket, unpaginated; good condition; brown spotting to outer page edges; dj yellowed and has light rubbing; crease down inner flap of dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.

AVEDON, Richard. Portraits. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Illustrated with 50 plates, 6 folding. Slim 4to, white cloth, slightly yellowed d.w.; minor bumping and shelf wear along bottom edge, dust wrapper small tear at head of spine and corners. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition. Internally fine, a very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

. Portraits - Richard Avedon ; essai: Harold Rosenberg ; [trad. de l'amà ricain par Robert Latour]. Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$91.33 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description:

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Large Quarto (12" x 9"). Unpaginated. Original dustjacket, spine lettered in gray over white cloth with black lettering on spine. Four frontispiece portraits or, if you will, four photo-illustrated "departmentalized" title pages. The essay by Harold Rosenberg is illustrated with photographs atop text. Extraordinary b/w full page photographs of a large, most illustrious group of celebrities framed by edges of film strips. Four of the photographic takes are fold-outs with Igor Stravinsky, The Chicago Seven, Andy Warhol and Factory Members, and the Mission Council. DJ sunned and discolored along edges and spine. Slight bumps at lower fore-corners, otherwise a fine copy.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard and Harold Rosenberg. Richard Avedon: Portraits. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Description: Cream cloth, cream dust jacket; [141 pp.], profuse bw plates, 4 fold-outs. Collection of portraits rendered by American fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004). With an essay by Harold Rosenberg. G+ (Still in shrinkwrap -- though the plastic itself has aged and may have transferred some age and soiling to the dj; pages are presumed to be fresh and clear.)

Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.

Richard Avedon; essay by Harold Rosenberg. Portraits. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Cloth. First edition.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Rosenberg, Harold. Portraits: Richard Avedon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Unpaginated, with 50 black and white photographs and 6 fold-outs. Previous owner's name written, center on the front free endpaper. Also embossed on lower right-hand corner with previous owner's name on page before the title page. Some yellowing to the top edge of the dustjacket, and some light foxing to the top edge of the page block. Dustjacket is protected with a Mylar cover.

Seller: Exquisite Corpse Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1976.

Price: US$107.99 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A superb monograph by the great Richard Avedon, with a brilliant essay by Harold Rosenberg; wonderfully printed in b&w, including gate-folds, many of the portraits are iconic and the final images of the photographer's dying father are profoundly moving; this copy is Fine in a Near Fine DJ with a bit of fraying to top edge of spine portion and one cat scratch, otherwise bright and unmarked, not price-clipped and under a Mylar cover; scarce as described.

Seller: Orpheus Books, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

Richard avedon. portraits. farrar, straus, Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$113.00 + shipping

Description: fine +. slight scratch on back. price unclipped: $25, jacket cover slightly creased inside.

Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Rosenberg, Harold. Portraits. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1976.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: stated First Ed74ition. photographs of A surprising cross-section of individuals - e.g., a fold-out of the chicago 7 trial 1968-9 , The Mission Council - men perhaps too important to become famous, Andy Warhol & members of the Factory. I could not locate any smiling faces among these posed photos. This copy is unmarked. DJ unclipped. 9" x 12" white cloth boards in white DJ (with clear mylar removable protector) Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

AVEDON, Richard. Portraits. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. White cloth with grey spine lettering, dust jacket. Extensive full-page illustrations (3 foldouts). Very good/very good. Touch of foxing to top 1" of otherwise near fine binding and top page edges; jacket faintly age toned; tiny abrasion to one image (only). A tight and nice first edition of this portrait collection by the controversial portrait and fashion photographer.

Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard; Rosenberg, Harold. Portraits : Richard Avedon. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket, DJ is chipped at bottom of spine. Includes essay "A Meditation on Likeness" by Rosenberg

Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Photography - Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Farrar, Straus Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$140.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. White cloth covered boards. Fashion photography by Avedon. Tiny shelf wear. A solid very good or better copy in clipped dustwrapper. States first printing.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard.. Portraits.. Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1976], New York, 1976.

Price: US$145.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Second Printing of the paperbound issue. A Fine copy in glossy laminated white wrappers lettered in grey, corners straight and sharp, slight toning to spine panel. Flamboyantly SIGNED by Avedon, in his usual manner in black marker, on the first blank leaf, and dated in 1980. Introductory Essay by Harold Rosenberg. 83 full frame black and white view-camera prints in reproduction--several as spliced group portraits presented as gatefolds--in unpaginated format. Many famous subjects. Q08496

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$149.96 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976. 1st edition. 4to. Unpaginated. Illus. Very Good book. Very Good dust jacket. (celebrities, portrait photography, photobooks) Inquire if you need further information.

Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard (1923 - 2004). PORTRAITS.. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1976) dj, 1976.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover first edition - First printing. An early book by Avedon and one of his strongest - it includes over fifty portraits of celebrities, writers and artists from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, including Marilyn Monroe, William F. Buckley, Igor Stravinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Marianne Moore, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ezra Pound, the Everly Brothers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean Genet, Truman Capote, J. Robert Oppenheimer, President Eisenhower and many more. Four of the photographic takes are multi-page fold-outs with Igor Stravinsky, The Chicago Seven, Andy Warhol and Factory Members, and the Mission Council. The final images in the book are moving portraits of his dying father, Jacob Israel Avedon, taken between October 1969 and August 1973. Includes an introductory Essay by Harold Rosenberg. Large format, unpaginated. Fine in white boards in a very near fine dust jacket. (slight toning to spine of dj)

Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard with essay by Harold Rosenberg. Richard Avedon : Portraits. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with minor wear, nicks to the edges and light soiling; interior clean and fresh. Stated First Edition of this landmark publication in modern portrait photography. Illustrated.

Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.

AVEDON, Richard and Harold Rosenberg. Portraits. Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an essay by Harold Rosenberg. A collection of black and white photographs of various celebrities and the various people who posed for Avedon. Includes several gatefolds. A clean and tight very near fine copy in white cloth boards in a clean near fine dust jacket with some very slight toning to the spine. A nicer than usual copy.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard.. Portraits.. Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1976], New York, 1976.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Second Printing, 1977. A Fine copy in stiff glossy white wrappers. Some minor toning of the spine panel. SIGNED by Avedon on the first blank leaf, and dated 1980. Unpaginated. With an introductory essay by Harold Rosenberg. Q07653

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard; essay by Harold Rosenberg. Portraits. N.Y.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st edition stated. Binding tight; pages clean; a bit of toning to tops of boards. Price-clipped DJ shows a touch of shelfwear; looks nice in Brodart cover. Inscribed by Avedon to p/o on front endpaper and dated Xmas 76. Nice copy of the great photographer's first solo book. 9 x 12".

Seller: Washington Square Autographed Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard.. Portraits.. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in off-white linen cloth, in a Fine white dustwrapper lettered in grey, not price-clipped. A collection of full-page black and white photo-portraits of various celebrities--writers, artists, etc.--presented in the un-cropped contact print format. Unusually nice copy of this fragile book. Q15206

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard. Portraits. [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Avedon, Richard. First Edition. Full page black and white portrait photographs, including 4 fold-outs, by Richard Avedon. 1 vols. Folio. White cloth. About Fine, in Fine dust jacket Full page black and white portrait photographs, including 4 fold-outs, by Richard Avedon. 1 vols. Folio

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Richard Avedon. Portraits. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Inscribed by Avedon: "For Walter, From Dick". Some foxing, prev owner name. VG+

Seller: Apport Used Books, Emmaus, PA, U.S.A.

Richard Avedon, Harold Rosenberg (Essay). Richard Avedon: Portraits. Farrar , Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: SIGNED BY RICHARD AVEDON IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION along the front free endpaper. A solid, very well-preserved copy to boot of the 1976 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine (very light offsetting along the edges) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with very light soilig to the rear panel. Tall quarto, Introductory essay ("Portraits: a Meditation on Likeness") by Harold Rosenberg. Avedon's remarkable portraits, in crisp black-and-white, throughout.

Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$280.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED! NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1976. Stated 1st edition. Hardcover 4to unpaginated. B/w plates, some fold-out. Signed by Avedon on bottom of front endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Top corners bumped. Top edge of covers toned and foxed and slight foxing at bottom edge. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket toned and lightly soiled. 3 pgs from Newsweek 1978 of Avedon photos laid in with part of an article about Avedon. (Portrait Photography) Inquire if you need further information.

Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard; Harold Rosenberg. Portraits (SIGNED). Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED and dated "Avedon 76" on front endpaper by Richard Avedon. 57 full page black and white photographs, including fold-outs. With an essay by Harold Rosenberg. Tight binding, clean pages. A hint of light shelf wear to slightly age-toned dustjacket (typical for this book) with a few minor spots to rear, and a stain to bottom of boards, otherwise an excellent copy of the First Printing of the First Edition now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 4to; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Author

Seller: W. Lamm, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Rosenberg, Harold. Portraits [Signed By Richard Avedon]. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Dust Jacket: Fine. Unpaginated, Portraits: A Meditation on Likeness by Harold Rosenberg; The b&w Plates. First Edition, 1976. Signed 'Avedon' and dated 1980 on ffep. "Photographs have a dual nature, a fact noted on one way or another by most people who comment on photography. A photo is a picture, and only that -- an entity in iteslf, independent of its subject. But it evokes the aura of an external reality, even when no such reality exists. To look at a photo is to see a picture and imagine the pictured." from A Meditation on Likeness. Price clipped. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. White cloth with grey lettering to spine. Size: 4to

Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard.. Portraits.. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in white cloth, white and silver-grey dustwrapper, not price-clipped. SIGNED and dated 1980 by Avedon on the free front endpaper. 70 full page plates (at the 8x10" format, plus three multi-frame group portrait gate-fold-outs, with a preliminary essay "Portraits: A Meditation on Likeness" by Harold Rosenberg Q15593

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Harold Rosenberg - Richard Avedon. RICHARD AVEDON : PORTRAITS. Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$417.94 + shipping

Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light foxing on top/side text block edges. ; 12.0 X 9.2 X 0.8 inches; 141 pages.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard. Portraits. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Avedon and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's white cloth with spine lettered in gray. Fine, in Fine dust jacket, with faint wear. A fantastic copy. An oversized item, international shipping charged may be extra.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Avedon, Richard; Rosenberg, Harold (essay). Richard Avedon: Portraits. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: White cloth; dust jacket; 4to; with numerous b/w photographic portraits, some folding. Inscribed by Avedon on the FFEP. Spine tips and corners gently bumped, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly rubbed and scratched; tiny chip at top edge of rear panel; VG+ in mylar, not price-clipped.

Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.

AVEDON, Richard. Portraits. The Noonday Press/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: AVEDON, Richard Inscribed on FFEP: Jacob. 11.10.79 The Noonday Press/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1977 Second Printing 12" x 9" In a collection of austere portraits of personalities including Dwight Eisenhower, Truman Capote, Rose Mary Woods, and Andy Warhol, Avedon demonstrates his aim to retain the sitter's identity and solidity of being without using illusionistic effects.

Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.

Harold Rosenberg. Portraits Richard Avedon. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A Near Fine copy Signed & dated by Richard Avedon.Inscribed at the back of book possibly by John Ford. Tiny closed tear lower dj.Some light "yellowing" around the dj.Price-clipped.Interior is Fine.

Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.

AVEDON, Richard. Portraits. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Inscribed: For Didi (famous NYC socialite) & Johnny (Ryan) from Dick & dated 10.1.76 AVEDON, Richard Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1976 12" x 9 1/4"

Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.