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NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. INSCRIBED & DATED. 1st/1st. First edition, first printing. Book is bright and tight with sharp corners and unmarred original photographic laminated boards. Mild wrinkle to spine end. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Laurie, Avedon Dallas 1979." Printed acetate dust jacket is unclipped ($50.00) with yellowing to spine and front and one inch closed tear to top back. 162 black and white photographs in the text. 10 3/4" X 14" tall. Introductory essay by Harold Brodkey.
Images by Richard Avedon whose fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century. This folio size work depicts many of the glamorous, rich and famous people of the era.

Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers,1997. SIGNED. 1st/1st. F/NF. First Edition. First Printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed on a Book Tour 1991 bookplate by Thomas Kinkade, Patrick Kinkade, and William Thomas Kinkade II. On the preceding page, Patrick Kinkade has inscribed "To Stacy, God Bless" with a drawing of an open book and "Book Tour 1997" written beneath the drawing. Book is tight and square with solid hinges. Front top corner mildly bumped, else boards are clean and unmarred. Textblock is clean with no writing, owner bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Map endpapers. Dust jacket is near fine with mild shelf-wear. Illustrated with many color plates and drawings. Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover. Come explore the byways of London, thatched cottages of rural England, green villages of Ireland, and bustling streets of Paris with renowned "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade, his brother, Patrick, and their father.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. Like New. 1st/1st with full number line beginning with "1". Pre-publication, association edition inscribed by Cornwell with full name on the half-title page to a former co-worker at the Virginia State Laboratory in Richmond Virginia. "To Mary Lea, Best Wishes, Patricia Daniels Cornwell 1989." Book has mild slant from reading otherwise tight with good corners and clean boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Faint foxing to side fore-edges. A bend on page 214 where the page was dog-eared. Dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) with mild toning to upper flaps. Original seller provided a 1991 VDGS (Virginia Department of General Services) newsletter about their now-famous employee. A lovely copy. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. Winner of the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
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