About this title: Contains portraits of some of the famous women in the world, including Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones, Yoko Ono, Brooke Shields and Kathleen Turner, by the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It also includes his rarely seen portraits of children and an essay by Joan Didion.
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Binding: Perfect Paperback
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Date Published: 1992-04
ISBN-13:9780821219379ISBN:0821219375
Description: Very Good. Mild shelf and corner wear; Mild soiling to page edges; Mild sunning to back cover top and side edges; Slight soiling to covers; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. Fine/Very Good 3rd printing. Price-clipped. Introduction by Joan Didion. Some edge wear and short closed tears but overall a nice, clean copy. read more
Description: Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket is in good condition showing some shelf wear with a few scuff marks and a few small tears. read more
Description: Very good in Very good dustjacket. (1989) 3rd printing 1990. 4to, Cloth, 114 pp.., photo illustrated. (Breathtakingly elegant homage to female beauty) (0-82122-1716-X) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780821217160ISBN:082121716X
Description: Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 082121716X. Eighty-six duotone illustrations. Introduction by Joan Didion. Third printing. Fine in a very good (large chip at the bottom corner of the front panel, short closed tear at the top of the rear panel) dust jacket. read more
Edition: 1st edition; no additional printings noted
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bulfinch Press, Boston
Date Published: 1989
Description: Significant staining to yellow cover cloth, both sides, about 2", on average, all around the perimeters. Photographs are all fine; stains seem to affect the cover chiefly, the dust jacket only minorly. Jacket has a few short tears; mostly quite nice. Obviously not collectible, this is an excellent study or reference copy. read more
Edition: stated 1st
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Bulfinch/ Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: c1989
Description: b/w photo portraits. very good, no dj, oversized lightly soiled yellow cloth. Tight. 119 pgs, ISBN: 0-82122-1716-X. Indexed. Designed by Dimitri Levas, intro by Joan Didion. Photos of Patti Smith/Grace Jones/Yoko Ono/et al. "L, B" remainder stamp on top edge. read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780821217160ISBN:082121716X
Description: Book: Very Good. DJ: Good. 4to. 114 pp. 10 x 12 1/8. Yellow cloth covered boards, stamped in black on spine and front cover. Illustrated dj. No ownership markings. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bulfinch
Date Published: 1992
Description: Introduction by Joan Didion. Close to fine and bright oversize pictorial wraps with strong spine and bright text throughout. The lightest use. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780436273629ISBN:0436273624
Description: Good. CLOTH HARDBACK, in a lightly rubbed and bumped dust jacket. Clean and sound with some reading wear. Over twenty years selling secondhand books. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780821217160ISBN:082121716X
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Hardcover in dust jacket. Folio. First printing. Very slight soiling to yellow cloth boards. Dust jacket has a closed tear, a small chip, a small scrape on rear, and some rubbing at edges and corners. Roughly 100 b&w plates of women, many well known, photographed starkly and simply. Introduction by Joan Didion. In protective Mylar. Large and heavy--may require extra postage if shipped other than domestic media mail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bulfinch Press, New York
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780821217160ISBN:082121716X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9 3/4"-12" tall. 114 pages. 86 duotone illustrations. Introduction by Joan Didion. Tight binding, clean pages. A touch of shelf wear to bottom of boards and to slightly rubbed dustjacket. There is a minor scrape, 3/4" x 1/4" to cover, otherwise an excellent copy now protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. Not price clipped. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Toronto, London
ISBN-13:9780821217160ISBN:082121716X
Description: Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. (1989) Original yellow cloth covers, very bright and clean. DJ lightly soiled w/ price label at bottom edge of rear panel. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents very nice. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bulfinch Press, Boston
Description: [1989], 1st edition. (4to) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 115pp. Photographs. Introduction by Joan Didion. (Photography, Nude Photography, Portrait Photography, Women) read more
Edition: Third Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Bulfinch Press Book, Little Brown & Co., Boston MA
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780821217160ISBN:082121716X
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 117 pp., 86 duotone photographs. Slight foxing to the top edge. Some fading and soiling to the spine and reverse dustjacket cover, otherwise a fine copy. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780436273629ISBN:0436273624
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 1st UK edition, large square 4to, 120pp, introduction Joan Didion; portrait photographs by Mapplethorpe of the famous and not so; VG Copy in sl spotted DJ which shows light wear and rubbing to edges and extrems, is sunned unevenly on bottom panel and which sits a little loosely on the book. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Bulfinch, Boston
Date Published: 1989
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Quarto. Cloth in mylar protected dust-jacket. Stated "First Edition. " 114 pp., plus list of plates; 86 duotone illustrations. This work stands as Mapplethorpe's homage to female beauty. A clean, tight copy in spine sunned jacket showing some wear. read more
Description: Fine- 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. First published in 1986, this book is the first paperback edition from 1992, 115 pages, full page b&w images. "Of the sixty-some women who appear in these pages most are well kown, figures of considerable celebrity or fashion or archievement. " FINE-SOFTCOVER. read more
Description: Very good; Collectible. FIRST EDITION. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1989. Hardcover in dust jacket. Stated 1st Edition (1st Printing). Protected dj with very minor soiling, else very good overall condition. No markings, etc., NOT EX-LIBRARY. (pc) read more
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