Slim Aaron photographs comprise the definitive insiders look into the private lives of the Leisure Class of the 1950’s and 60’s. Aarons as part of the Jet-set photographed from Beverly Hills, to the French Riviera, capturing the Kennedys, Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and other elite jet-setters. Aarons worked without stylists or elaborate lighting, preferring to photograph celebrities in their own clothes and own surroundings. As a faithful chronicler of the High Society he has no equal.

Description: Hard bound in dust jacket.  First Edition. Harper & Row 1974. Dust Jacket shows wear along its edges and corners with a rip at the top of the front panel and the remains of stickers and tape on its front and back panels, but no major chips or missing pieces. The book shows minor wear along the edges of its boards and has light foxing on the edge of the text block, but is otherwise in very good condition. Interior clean and binding sound! RARE!. Settings include Aspen, Bermuda, Newport, Palm Springs, Beverly Hills, Scottsdale, Palm Beach, Montego Bay, San Francisco, and other places the jet set congregated.

Bookseller Inventory# 62244

A Wonderful Time: An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life

Slim Aarons

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William S. Burroughs is considered to be one of the most politically subversive, culturally influential, and innovative writers of the twentieth century. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived and worked is various parts of the world, such as Mexico City, London, Paris, Berlin, and most famously Tangier.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. First Printing of the First American Edition with $6.00 price on inside flap of dust jacket. Black boards and black topstain, with tile in gilt to spine edge. Dust jacket shows a few small chips to edges and minor sunning to spine edge. Notation and underlining in pen to several pages and rear end page, otherwise a good working copy with binding tight. One of the greatest and most controversial novels in American literary history. Originally published in 1959 in Paris. It was not published in the US until 1962 due to US obscenity laws. Published by Barney Rosset, of Grove Press, in a tiny edition of only 3500 copies. It won the last major literary censorship battle in America. A landmark work! A scarce first edition of this seminal Beat novel.

Bookseller Inventory # 26009

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Naked Lunch
Burroughs, William S.

Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: 1959
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First U.S. Edition

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