Alexey Brodovitch, Phaidon Press Inc., 2002, HC, Very Good

Purcell, Kerry William. New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 2002.

English, US Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 10 ¼” x 11 ¾,” 272 pp.

ISBN: 0714841633

Navy woven cloth over boards with dark green ¾ paper wrap, black stamped text to front and spine, navy endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s navy dust jacket with full-color photograph to front and back, black-and-white photograph to back, navy text to front, white text to spine, white text to navy inside gate flaps. Very minor shelfwear, very minor edgewear, minor soiling to front endpaper, minor soiling at title page, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and very good. In a Very Good dust jacket now protected in a Mylar sleeve. Mild soiling to top edges of inside gate flaps, very minor edgewear, minor pressure indentation to back, mild shelfwear and soiling to Mylar sleeve, otherwise very good. 272 pp. Replete with full-color and black-and-white images. A comprehensive overview of Alexey Brodovitch, the well-known art director of Harper’s Bazaar, and his life, career, artistic process, and legacy. Thorough text accompanies photographs and magazine spreads. From the dust jacket: “Among the rare materials included are book covers and posters from Brodovitch’s early work in Paris and Philadelphia, more than 80 spreads and covers from Harper’s Bazaar, and contact sheets of photographs he took with a concealed Minox camera in the 1960s, while he was a patient at Ward’s Island Hospital, a mental institution in Manhattan.”