Self-Portrait Book People Picture Themselves Ed by B Britton 1976 1st Prt Signed
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Author Name Britton, BurtTitle Self-Portrait Book People Picture ThemselvesBinding HardcoverBook Condition Very Good in Very Good- dust jacketEdition First Edition; First PrintingPublisher Random House 1976Seller ID 624This book is in very good condition with slight shelf wear. The DJ, now protected in a poly cover, is in very good minus shape with minor edge wear and edge tears. ;Burt Britton owned the Strand Bookstore in NYC. He asked Norman Mailer to do a self portrait. Mailor did. And Britton kept asking for and getting self portraits from literary figures from then on.This book features, among many others, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Maurice Sendak, Hilary Knight, John Updike, Joseph Heller, Georges Simenon, Eudora Welty, and John Fowles.Important avant-garde writer Donald Barthelme has signed his self-portrait in blue ink (middle panel, page 13) !What a great gift for your favorite bibliophile!Please note, Random House does not use a "1" in their first printing number sequence on the copyright page. The correct elements are a number "2" along with "First Edition". A second printing will have the number "2" without that FE element. This is according to my McBride's Identification of First Editions guide. ;B&W Illustrations;8vo 8" - 9" tall;271 pages;Signed by ContributorShipping is FREE within the 48 contiguous US states.
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