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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.
MAPPLETHORPE, Robert; Bruce Chatwin.. Lady Lisa Lyon.. New York: Viking Press, 1983, 1983.
Price: US$968.70 + 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.
MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT. LADY LISA LYON. The Viking Press, [1983]., New York, 1983.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed by Lisa Lyon and Robert Mapplethorpe on the half title page. Pictorial stiff wrappers, 128 pp., illustrated. As new, unread copy in protective transparent polyester dust jacket.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
MAPPLETHORPE, ROBERT. LADY LISA LYON. The Viking Press, [1983]., New York, 1983.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed by Lisa Lyon and Robert Mapplethorpe on the half title page. Original black cloth, 128 pp., illustrated. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.