Masterpieces of Medical Photography (Signed Limited Edition, with additional inscription and typed letter signed)

Author: Joel-Peter Witkin (photographs); Stanley Burns, M.D. (text)
Title: Masterpieces of Medical Photography (Signed Limited Edition, with additional inscription and typed letter signed)
Publication: Altadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1987
Edition: First Edition

Description: First Edition. Presentation copy, one of an undetermined number of copies stamped "BURNS ARCHIVE NO." on the verso of the title page (this copy hand-numbered 59) and INSCRIBED by the author to noted bookseller Joanna Grimes on the verso of the title page, below the limitation statement: "Presented to / Joanna Grimes of the Old Hickory Bookshop for a decade of support of my photohistorical collecting and writing / This 4 of April 88 / With much appreciation / Stanley B. Burns, M.D."

Laid in is an accompanying typed letter signed from Burns to Ms. Grimes (then proprietor of the Old Hickory Bookshop), a portion of which reads: .".Because of people such as yourself, my Archive has grown to be an important cultural institution in America."

Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

Seller ID: 112287

Subject: Autograph Material, Limited Editions, Photo Books, Science and Nature



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