Lot Details
Lot 72
KARSH, YOUSUF A Fifty-Year Retrospective.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1983]. First edition, copy 133 of 300 copies signed on the colophon by Karsh, this with the signed gelatin silver print of Winston Churchill (this is arguably the most desirable issue; equal portions of the edition had images of Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O'Keeffe or Pablo Casals). Three-quarters publisher's red morocco, housed in the black cloth clamshell case of issue, the Churchill photograph sleeved at the front as issued. 11 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (28.5 x 26.5 cm); 192; [2] pp.; the photograph 11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 217 mm), signed in ink in margin recto. Fine in fine box.
Approximately 75 copies were offered with the image of Churchill, making this a rare Churchill desideratum.
C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman
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