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A Very Good, tight and unlikely unread paperback copy!

A little synopsis of the book and Illustrator- Victor Livoti...

This is one of Livoti's first montage illustrations, a brilliant mashup of the fashion industry, produced for the cover of Dell's paperback edition of The Beautiful People, by New York Times reporter Marilyn Bender. Note the omission of the clippings from the final cover product. Dell published their edition in 1968 after Bender's non-fiction book had already become a pop sensation in hardback. The hardback was subtitled: "A candid examination of a cultural phenomenon-- the marriage of fashion and society in the 60's." Dell's tagline pushed the pushed the limits of exaggeration by proclaiming: "Who they are and what they really do behind the golden doors of their scandal-ridden world." A not entirely inaccurate description, as it were, but what it reflects mostly is the kind of aggressive marketing strategy that paperback publishers engaged in routinely.

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