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2004016538New York: Glenn Young Books 2004. Inscribed to Barry Humphries on title page. Book measures 31x23.5.cm. 1271pp illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers faux leather with gilt box and lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Jacket in very good clean condition. Internally pages in near fine condition. A very nice inscribed copy. F. Signed by Author. Faux Leather. Very Good Plus Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Quarto. Glenn Young Books Hardcover
1000171991. First Edition. Signed. HIRSCHFELD Al. Hirschfeld: Art and Recollections from Eight Decades. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1991. Oblong quarto original half black cloth original dust jacket. $5500.First edition signed and dated on the title page by Hirschfeld ""3/24/92"" and additionally signed by 34 stars of stage and screen next to their caricatures among them Frank Langella Eric Bogosian Kevin Kline Jonathan Pryce F. Murray Abraham Stockard Channing Bernadette Peters Uta Hagen Eli Wallach B.D. Wong and Jack Klugman.Al Hirschfeld's devotion to line comes from a fundamental aestheticrespect for absolute simplicity: ""When I'm rushed I do a complicated drawing. When I have the time I do a simple one."" Hirschfeld: Eight Decades provides a fantastic retrospective of this artist's prolific career with an introduction by Alistair Cooke and an essay by Hirschfeld on his beginnings and his process. ""The drawing itself whether it is of Chaplin or Garbo or someone completely unknown has to communicate something about the personality that exists in that human being I am drawing. To capture personality in graphic terms is the problem I try to solve in every drawing and every drawing dictates its own solutions."" Inner hinges expertly reinforced expert restoration to spin head of dust jacket. A wonderful collection of caricatures and signatures. hardcover
