ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE by Mapplethorpe, Robert, and Patti Smith - 1987

Boston and New York: Little, Brown & Company; A Bullfinch Press Book, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 28 to October 23, 1988. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "A retrospective of the work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, a man known for his steamy and luxurious pictures of nudes, striking portraits and still lifes." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Bulfinch / Whitney Museum of American Art, Little Brown, BOMC, 1990. Quite attractive tall very close to fine bright stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Graphic sensuous and bold with an excellent text. Gift quality

Berlin: Raab Gallerie, 1986. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 30 through June 6, 1987. Text in English and German with a long interview between Anne Horton and Mapplethorpe. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates of many of Mapplethorpe's best known images and a list of previous exhibitions. A clean very near fine copy in French style wrappers.

New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2004. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. 4to. Paper-bound. Pp. 232. Illustrated. Checklist Photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.

New York, NY: Arena Editions, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Approx. 220 p. w/b&w photographic illus. Mapplethorpe's record of his vision of of homosexuality and fetishism.

Schirmer/Mosel, 2010. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 108 pages. A classic, indeed perhaps the best of the Mapplethorpe books. And for many most certainly the most typical Mapplethorpe, now available once again thanks to this re-edition. The Black Book, first published in 1986, presents 96 formally stringent and highly erotic nudes, all of them photographs of black men, either as full figures, or staged as details, as fragments of their bodies. Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in all their presence and sensuous radiance. Black-and-white photography was Mapplethorpe's preferred medium. And his obsessive aesthetics was based on completely mastering it, as this enabled him to visualize any number of tonal gradations and penetrate deep into the very pores of the gleaming black skin. It is a method that reached a climax in these images. The Black Book, Mapplethorpe s homage to the black male body, has always been one of the most important visual contributions to the… Read More

LOndon: St Martin's Press, 1986. Book. Illus. by Robert Mapplethorpe. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paper Edition. 280mm x 280mm. Light wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally very clean. 112pp.

Whithey Museum of American Art / New York Graphic Society, New York / Little Brown, Boston, 1988. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Extra Large 4to. in photo illustrated stiff card covers, 216pp on thick art paper, plates in colour and b/w, etc __CONDITION : A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (minute speck of shelf rub to cover corner tips). __NOTE Due to size, weight or for insurance purposes delivery to some destinations outside the UK may cost more than the shipping price shown above. Orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost... __To see more of our Photo books type DbbPHOTO in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Whithey Museum of American Art / New York Graphic Society, New York / Little Brown, Boston, 1988. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Extra Large 4to. in photo illustrated stiff card covers, 216pp on thick art paper, plates in colour and b/w, etc __CONDITION : A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (spine slightly concave). ... __To see more of our Photo books type DbbPHOTO in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Pasadena, CA: Twelvetress Press, 1985. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. Blue cloth boards with black lettering, bw illustrated dust jacket, [101] pp, profusely illustrated in bw throughout. Robert Mapplethrope portrait photography. Includes bibliographical references (page 108).