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1 ANGELOU, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1969 her first volume of autobiographical fiction, inscribed First edition, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, “Bill Berger, Joy! Maya Angelou. 1/88”. Angelou has previously been quoted as saying that “When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness . . . all the good things”. Inscribed copies of Maya Angelou’s works are uncommon; Angelou would usually sign or inscribe books with just her name and the salutation “Joy!”. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and red, top edge red. With dust jacket. Light foxing to edges and endpapers, faint offsetting to front free endpaper, trivial crease to p. 237. A very good copy indeed in a nice example of the jacket, flaps a little toned, else bright and sharp. £2,750 [157644] 2 BACON, Francis – SYLVESTER, David. Interviews with Francis Bacon. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975 First edition, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, “For Stefanowski, with all my best wishes Francis Bacon, Zurich 6/5/75”, together with a letter from Michael Stefanowski gifting the book
1,600 copies signed by the Rolling Stones: Jagger, Richards, Watts, and Wood. This photographic record charts the Stones’ remarkable history and lifestyle, and has an appendix including the Stones in the media, a Stones timeline, discography, and photographers’ biographies. Folio. Original illustrated boards. Housed in purple leather clamshell box with the Rolling Stones lips logo to the front cover. With the print Mick Jagger (1973) , housed in purple leather folder with the Rolling Stones lips logo on the front cover. With the original packing box. Over 500 pages of photographs including 3 fold-outs by David Bailey, Peter Beard, Cecil Beaton, Bob Bonis, Anton Corbijn, Annie Leibovitz, Gered Mankowitz, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, Bent Rej, Ethan Russell, Albert Watson and others. In fine condition. £17,500 [156784] 4 BEAUVOIR, Simone de. Le Deuxième Sexe. [Paris:] Gallimard, 1949 “all contemporary feminists build on beauvoir’s achievement” First edition, limited issue, each volume one of 50 hors commerce on alfama Marais paper aside from the regular trade issue, numbered 2,026 and 2,033 respectively. Despite drawing immense criticism, being denounced as pornographic, and even securing a place on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum , 22,000 copies were sold in the first week alone, and it
to Cornelia Steffen. Stefanowski was a German television journalist for culture. This work collects and illustrates a series of interviews with Bacon from 1962 to 1974. Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, spine and front cover lettered in green and white. With 94 illustrations. Browning to covers, more noticeable to back cover which is white. £2,500 [157457] 3 BAILEY, David. The Rolling Stones. Foreword by Bill Clinton. Cologne: Taschen, 2014 Limited Art Edition, number 35 of 75 copies with a print of Mick Jagger from the Goats Head Soup cover shoot signed by David Bailey. The total edition comprised
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