Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Collection of black-and-white photographic portraits made by Penn at various locations around the world with a portable studio. Price-clipped dust jacket in good condition with age-toning, light scuffing and several small scratches to back panel. Single 5cm scratch through to rear cover. Inside pages show light toning to page edges but no marks or inscriptions. Binding is firm. 95 pages. s120
Seller: Ethan Daniel Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Penn's on-location photographs of people from around the world, taken in his portable studio from 1948 on, and most of which appeared in "Vogue". With text by Penn. First edition. 26.5 cm; 95 pp.; illustrated from photographs by Penn. A very good copy or better in beige cloth, in a very good dust jacket with slight rolling to the spine.
Seller: Trevian Books, Piermont, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Minor edge wear and age-toning to dust jacket. Slight ripple to page edges, but no marks or inscriptions. Not price-clipped. Not ex-library. Not a remainder. Binding is firm. 96 pages.
Seller: Ethan Daniel Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards (HB) in very good + condition with only prev. owner's inscription written on page facing front cover. "On assignment for Vogue in the 1950s and 1960s, Penn (1917-2009) traveled the world as an ambulant studio photographer, setting up a tent and photographing the people of Cuzco, Crete, Extremadura, Dahomey, Cameroon, San Francisco, Nepal, New Guinea, and Morocco. Also includes .his photo-essay on the small trades of Paris, London and NYC. A photo-book masterpiece of the late 20th century. Cloth-bound hardcover in a pictorial dust jacket. 96 pages; 76 b&w photographic plates--most full-page--including text illustrations and photographs of Penn at work by his wife, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn.
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Original card covers with Penn photograph on front. Slight sunning around the edges, but overall a fine minus copy with the corners fairly sharp. Unusual in this nice condition.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. WORLDS IN A SMALL ROOM. Grossman Publishers, 1974.
Price: US$137.52 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.94
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Worlds in a Small Room. Grossman, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reviewer's copy with review slip and publicity photo laid in. Photo and slip have staple holes and small tears. Some dust soiling to cloth, otherwise about fine, tight, clean, no markings or bookplates. In a vg+ dust jacket with some darkening (yellowing) to white background and a couple tiny edgetears. No chips and not price-clipped.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Worlds In A Small Room. Grossman Publishers, 1974.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Condition: Very Good; Hardcover in dustjacket. First Edition 1974. Condition is Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Book has clean pages and a tight, square binding. Touch of foxing along top edge. Jacket is clean and bright with no rips or tears. Dept. store price tag over price on flap. Photos upon request.
Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 96p quarto, illustrated A fine copy in a fine dust jacket Advance review copy with publisher's review slip plus 2 publicity photographs.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. Worlds in a Small Room (SIGNED). Grossman Publishers, 1974.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED. Condition: Fine. In protective mylar jacket, original DJ has some discoloring at the edges, but is unmarred by tears or creases. Signed "To Michael".
Seller: Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Worlds in a Small Room.. Grossman Publishers (Viking), New York, 1974.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a near fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket. The jacket is complete, not price-clipped, very lightly toned at edges. SIGNED by Irving Penn in ink on the half title-page, just beneath the title, and dated New York 1978. Not inscribed to anyone, just signed and dated. The front endpaper has a circular private owner handstamp and also the lower right corner of the endpaper is creased. Illustrated throughout in black & white with Irving Penn's photographs. 11" square, 95 pages. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Seller: Design Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
PENN, Irving.. Worlds in a Small Room.. Grossman Publishers (Viking),, NY:, 1974.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. INSCRIBED by Irving Penn to photographer Ann Parker and author Avon Neal. Very good in a very good (rubbing/dust soiling) dust jacket.; 95 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Worlds in a Small Room. Grossman, New York, 1974.
Price: US$749.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original white cloth. First Edition. On the inside front flap is this information: “Penn has traveled the world to compile these ‘records of physical presence.” He has set up his “ambulant studio” on the edge of the Sahara, among gypsies in Spain, in the highlands of New Guinea, in the mountains of Nepal—and has invited the inhabitants to step, for a moment, out of their worlds and into a new one.” Inscribed warmly to Syracuse publishing magnate S. I Newhouse and his second wife, Victoria: “To Victoria and Si; with greetings and great admiration. Irv Penn.” Fine in Fine Dust Jacket.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Worlds in a Small Room. Grossman Publishers, New York, 1974.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 4to. Penn's second monograph, SIGNED ("Irving Penn / New York, 1978") on the half-title. Publisher's beige cloth, near fine, in dust jacket, yellowed at spine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.