Marilyn. A Biography by Norman Mailer. Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1973. 1st Edition. Quarto, publisher's oatmeal cloth, spine stamped in brown, upper board blindstamped, brown endpapers, original photo-illustrated dust jacket.
NM's biography of MM, illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white photos by two dozen photographers who worked with "the most sought after photographic subject in the world" (from the dust jacket), including Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Bruce Davidson, Philippe Halsman, Douglas Kirkland, Inge Morath, Arnold Newman, Bert Stern, and more. "[A]s the deaths and spiritual disasters of the decade of the Sixties came one by one to American Kings and Queens, as Jack Kennedy was killed, and Bobby, and Martin Luther King...so the decade that began with Hemingway as the monarch of American arts ended with Andy Warhol as its regent, and the ghost of Marilyn's death gave a lavender edge to that dramatic American design of the Sixties which seemed in retrospect to have done nothing so much as to bring Richard Nixon to the threshold of imperial power" (Mailer being Mailer). With an index to the photos. Stated first printing. Minor soiling to cloth; price-clipped dust jacket with some chipping, soiling, and edgewear. Very good. Item #12590
$65.00