This is the illustrated 1988 *first UK edition* of ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE with essays by Richard Howard + Ingrid Suschy

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Afraid my photography does not do justice to this book — which contains images too sexplicit to reproduce here — by one of contemporary photography’s most important figures: MAPPLETHORPE …

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Original pictorial card, quarto, around nine inches by 11.75 tall

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First UK edition published by Secker, London, in 1988. Free from permanent inscription and markings to the text.

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Although interior condition is overall good, because this original letterpress book is old(ish), it may display trivial signs of use and age consistent with a printed object of this vintage. All 216 pp main text (inc bibliography) are complete and correct.

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¶ Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (1946–1989); American photographer ¶

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