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Lisette Model.

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Designed by Marvin Israel with a preface by Berenice Abbott.

Lisette Model.

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Designed by Marvin Israel with a preface by Berenice Abbott.

Stock Code 111720

Millerton, New York, Aperture, 1979

Presentation copy. Presentation copy of Lisette Model's first monograph, inscriberd: 'To Edna / My first interviewer when I did / not know what I was doing – / With all my love from / Lisette / November 1979'.

Edna 'Bennie' Bennett, was a photographer, writer, naturalist, an editor of US Camera and contributor to Aperture, and later a used bookseller on Long Island, and a friend of Lisette Model and Berenice Abbott.

First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title; folio (377 x 231 mm, 14¾ x 9 in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, light toning to edges, occasional light foxing; endpapers grey on one side cream on the other, photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, printed in grey and black, cocked, corners tapped, dust-jacket printed in imitation of boards, handling marks, light foxing to verso, minor wear to edges, an excellent copy; 112pp.

The Book of 101 Books pp242-3; Auer Collection p617; What They Saw: Photobooks by Women pp254-5.
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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.

Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

We exhibit at major international art fairs, including TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Frieze Masters, Art Miami and Masterpiece London, as well as antiquarian & rare book fairs including New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

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Lisette Model.

MODEL, Lisette.

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