Moments Preserved.
eight essays in photographs and words by Irving Penn with an introduction by Alexander Liberman...
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1960
First edition; 4to (325 x 240 mm, 12¾ x 9½ in); black-and-white and colour photographs, introduction by Alexander Liberman, captions by Penn with the assistance of Rosemary Blackmon; plain endpapers, offsetting and light marking, beige cloth-covered boards, spine lettered in black, minor toning to spine, starting at head, white dust-jacket printed in grey, toning to spine, lightly marked, minor wear to extremities, photo-illustrated paper-covered board slipcase, minor toning, lightly marked, near-fine in a very good dust-jacket and slipcase; 184pp.
Regards sur un siècle de photographie à travers Le Livre 123; The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century pp158-9; The Open Book pp186-7; 802 photo books from the Auer collection p401.
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