Irving Penn [photography]; Diana Vreeland [text]

Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939: A Photographic Essay by Irving Penn with Text by Diana Vreeland [Signed and Inscribed by Penn]

New York: Viking Press, 1977. Very Good + / Very Good +. Item #47648

New York: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. Square quarto (27cm); 94pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket with $18.95 price intact; boards bound in beige cloth with black stamping to spine. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Dust jacket bumped with superficial scratches throughout. Rear panel and interior flaps toned. Boards lightly bumped but otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean; endsheets lightly toned. Very Good or better. Signed and inscribed by the author at first free endsheet.

Inscription reads “For Paul* with greetings and friendly thoughts.” Below, Penn has added an asterisk “*and Mme. Bonner, of course.”

Fashion photography by Irving Penn and text by editor-turned-curator Diana Vreeland together chronicle three decades of French fashion. Much of the early 20th century couture included in this book was featured in Vreeland’s 1973–74 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, “The Tens, The Twenties, The Thirties: Inventive Clothes.”.

Price: $500.00