Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Penn, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183pp. Beige Cloth, Black lettering on the spine. Penn's inscription on the front free endpaper. Black and white, color photographs on each page. Covers are toned and foxed, with the tip of the the upper right corner of the front panel blackened. The spine is darkened and rubbed. Internally fine, unmarked. Unclipped white jacket is bright, the upper edge of the front flap frayed, minor roughness to the upper edge of the front panel. Housed in a sturdy pictorial slipcase with edgewear and superficial wear. Irving Penn's first book is a selection of the work he had been doing for nearly twenty years under Alexander Liberman's direction at Vogue. Liberman wrote the introduction and Penn designed the eight "essays in photographs and words." The photographs include some of the great Penn portraits in gray corners. Size: 9 5/8" x 13"
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Photographs and Words. Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A beautiful copy in beautiful dust jacket and slipcase with just a trace of wear. Signed by Penn with "New York C" on the front endpaper. This is a first edition with the black dot on the copyright page. A truly stunning copy of Penn's first great book.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: INSCRIBED BY IRVING PENN on the front free endpaper. A crisp, unusually sharp copy to boot of the 1960 1st edition of the photographer's first published collection. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just the slightest touch of light creasing at the foot of the spine. Folio, beautiful, groundbreaking gravure portraits thruout. A superior copy. Also includes a firm, very solid example of the publisher's pictorial slipcase, with a small, discreet former owner name (the man to whom Irving Penn inscribed this copy) on the lower front panel.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 183p quarto, illustrated, A fine bright copy in a very good bright dust jacket, a closed tear to the glassine at the lower front corner. Inscribed by Penn "For Hugh with all good wishes, Irving Penn". enclosed in a very good publisher's slipcase
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 4to., 184 pp., more than 250 color and b&w plates. A fine copy in the dust jacket that has a tiny tear and crease at the crown of the spine, housed in the photo-illustrated slipcase, which also is minimally worn and near fine. The previous owner has neatly signed his name and address, Walter H. DeLano, One West 72nd (The Dakota), NYC on the top corner of the front free-endpaper and the photographer has SIGNED and dated the half-title page. In all, a bright and fine presentation. The first monograph by this most influential photographer.
Seller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd., ABAA, Akron, OH, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. Cover boards VG. Text VG. DJ Good with some loss at left seam. Slip Case Fair to Good with normal handling. Overall Good.
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2584.34 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Francine and Cleve, With Love, Irving Penn". The recipients were the French-American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic, Francine du Plessix (1930-2019), and her husband, the American abstract expressionist painter, Cleve Gray (1918-2004). Francine Du Plessix was the step-daughter of Alexander Liberman, who was the art editor of Vogue from 1941 to 1962, before becoming the editorial director of Condé Nast, and who contributed to this work. This collection of photographs was taken by Penn between 1947 and 1958, including portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, all of which first appeared within the editorial pages of Vogue. Roth p. 158 Tall quarto. Original cream linen, titles to spine in black. With dust jacket and the pictorial slipcase (slight wear to extremities). Housed in custom green morocco-backed green cloth slipcase and matching chemise, titles in gilt direct to spine. Numerous monochrome and colour photographic illustrations. Slight foxing to boards, the binding otherwise firm and square, light foxing to first and last few pages, else internally fresh. A very good copy in the very good jacket, light soiling, slight wear to head of spine panel.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: Small folio. This copy is inscribed by Penn (1917-2009) to his long-time agent Peter Schub: "For Peter" (signed) "P." From the library of Peter Schub (1926-2021) who had a long and distinguised career as a revered agent of photography. Among his clients; Peter Beard, Anthony Armstrong Jones, and Irving Penn. Celebrated as Vogue magazine's top photographer for 60 years, Irving Penn was an intensely private man avoiding the limelight, concentrating on expanding the creative potential of the medium. This is his first book. A near fine book with a near fine dust jacket in a similar decorated slipcase
Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Folio. Fine in very good dust jacket toned along the spine, with modest tears at the spine folds, and shallow loss at the crown, in lightly worn, near fine publisher's illustrated slipcase. Nicely Inscribed by Penn to a collaborator: "For Paul Bonner, who was patient and generous with advice and effort in the making of this book. With appreciation, Irving Penn." Bonner is noted in the acknowledgments section of the book for helping Penn with pre-publication issues. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, NY, 1960.
Price: US$3995.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book is signed by Penn to Dear old master ( who is Edward Steichen although he isn't named).This is for you with eternal gratitude, admiration,respect, and affection. There are a few minor edge tears on jacket. In a very good slipcase.
Seller: michael diesman, Fresh Meadows, NY, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving; Alexander Liberman. Moments Preserved.. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Large quarto, original beige cloth, original pictorial slipcase. Inscribed by Irving Penn, "For ______ and ______ with affecitionate greetings from an old friend." Fine in a fine near dust jacket. Slipcase is about fine condition. Includes the original brown paper covering from Simon and Schuster, which is worn. Roth 101, pp. 158-159; Hasselblad pp. 186-7. Irving Penn was an internationally known American photographer who became popular for his work in fashion photography. He worked at Vogue magazine, and he photographed for Issey Miayke and Clinique. His work serves as an example of excellent photography even today. Moments Preserved is his first publication. Irving Penn said befittingly of his work, "[s]ensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world. Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe" His photography is held at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, both of which also hold collections of personal materials that relate to Penn's career.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.