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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oblong 4to. Pp. 165, [10]. Iavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Avedon, many full-page. Laminated wrap illustrated with photographs. Lightly rubbed, spine bottom chipped. From the collection of Seattle arts patrons Bagley and Virginia Wright, signed by André Gregory: "Love to my two friends, The Mad Hatter André." All about Gregory's most (in)famous collaborative avant-garde theatre production, with the Manhattan Project in 1970: Arbus interviews with the cast, text of the play, and Avedon studio photos of moments from the finished production.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$359.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oblong format (9 x 11 ins); pp 165 + [10] Publisher's white boards with titles in brown lettering to spine and front. With more than 100 black-&-white photographs by Richard Avedon. With the unclipped photographic dust-jacket with original price of $15.00 at the top of front flap, jacket torn at head of spine and on the back panel with a piece missing from lower section and two heavy crease lines. Signed and inscribed to the American-British socialite and HIV/AIDS campaigner, Marguerite Littman, and purchased directly from her house in Chester Square, London. Doon Arbus (b.1945) is the daughter of the photographer Diane Arbus and a noted rock 'n roll journalist writing for 'Rolling Stone' and 'New York Herald Tribune'. The Manhattan Project was formed in 1968 as an experimental theatre company which broke the norms of conventional theatre. The project lasted for several years and proved extremely influential. The photographs were taken by Richard Avedon during the production of Alice and Wonderland in a church annexe of Broadway on Park Avenue South.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom