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PHOTOGRAPHY AND FASHION – ARMSTRONG-JONES, Antony, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930-2017). Snowdon - A Life in View. New York: Rizzoli, 2014.

Lord Snowdon's own personal retrospective on his photographic career.

Folio (340 x 255mm). Numerous illustrations. Publisher's cloth with photographic portrait on upper cover and with embossed lettering in gilt and black (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: authorial presentation inscription 'Best wishes Snowdon' to unnamed recipient on quasi half-title.

[Sold with:] McDOWALL, Roddy (editor). Double Exposure. New York: 1993. Folio (345 x 254mm). Numerous illustrations. Publisher's quarter cloth over boards (corners faintly bumped), dustjacket (rubbed at extremities). Provenance: editor's large presentation inscription on title in red felt-tip to:) – Lord Snowdon. [And:] PARKINSON, Norman. Fifty years of style and fashion. New York: 1983. Small folio (305 x 220mm). Numerous illustrations. Publisher's black cloth over boards (extremities faintly rubbed), dustjacket (tiny tear at head of spine). Provenance: Lord Snowdon (ownership inscription in red ink on front free endpaper).

[Sold together with six others similar, thus:] PARKINSON, Norman. Sisters under the skin. London: 1973; CARTER, Graydon and others. Vanity Fair. The Portraits. A century of iconic images. New York: Abrams, 2008 (textblock broken at pp.192-193, contained in a cloth slipcase); BOLOFO, Koto (photographer). Lord Snowdon. Goettingen: Steidl, 2011 (front free endpaper torn out and removed); BAILEY, David. Bailey's Stardust. London: 2014; LORIOT, Thierry-Maxime. Jean Paul Gautier. Paris: 2015; Vogue. Voice of a Century. London: Genesis Publications and Conde Nast, 2016 (one of 1916 copies, numbered 513, with signed limitation slip by Alexandra Shulman, Paul Smith, Kate Moss and five others, contained within original cloth box). Sold as a collection, not subject to return.
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