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Marilyn & Me : a Photographer's Memories

2012ref. 100419Nan A. Talese. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 128 pp. ; 18 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death with extraordinary photographs some of which have never been published. "With the precision of a surgeon Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching memoir. Revealing and readable it’s a book I couldn’t put down." —Tina Brown When he pulled his station wagon into the 20th Century-Fox studios parking lot in Los Angeles in 1960 twenty-three-year-old Lawrence Schiller kept telling himself that this was just another assignment just another pretty girl. But the assignment and the girl were anything but ordinary. Schiller was a photographer for Look magazine and his subject was Marilyn Monroe America's sweetheart and sex symbol. In this intimate memoir Schiller recalls the friendship that developed between him and Monroe while he photographed her in Hollywood in 1960 and 1962 on the sets of Let's Make Love and the unfinished feature Something's Got to Give the last film she worked on. Schiller recalls Marilyn as tough and determined enormously insecure as an actress but totally self-assured as a photographer’s model. Monroe knew how to use her looks and sexuality to generate publicity and in 1962 she allowed Schiller to publish the first nude photographs of her in over ten years which she then used as a weapon against a studio that wanted to have her fired—and ultimately succeeded. The Marilyn Schiller knew and writes about was adept at hiding deep psychological scars but she was also warm and open candid and disarming a movie star who wished to be taken more seriously than she was. Accompanying the text are eighteen of the author’s own photographs some never previously published. Many writers have tried to capture her essence on the page but as someone who was in the room a young man Marilyn could connect with and trust Schiller gives us a unique look at the real woman offscreen. "In this short splendid memoir Lawrence Schiller offers us another cut on the scintillating diamond that is Marilyn Monroe. In clear honest straightforward prose Schiller allows us to dwell in the heart of another time. He captures Marilyn both in photographs and words and in so doing he gives us intimate access into one of the great stories of the 20th century: the complicated cocktail of joy and sadness that goes along with both beauty and fame." —Colum McCann . 2012. 0385536674 . Nan A. Talese hardcover

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MOSER, Barry; Baum, L Frank; Schiller, Justin GBiblio.com

Wonderful Wizard of Oz The

ref. 06937West Hatfield Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press 1985. Barry Moser's Remarkable Wonderful Wizard of Oz One of the Great Pennyroyal Press Books - Limited to 350 Copies Signed by Moser MOSER Barry illustrator. PENNYROYAL PRESS. BAUM L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Illustrated by Barry Moser. With an Appreciation by Justin G. Schiller. West Hatfield Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press 1985. One of 350 numbered copies this being No. 153 signed by Barry Moser. Large quarto 12 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; 327 x 302 mm. 6 blank 5 1 blank 1 1 blank 1 1 blank 3 1 blank 1-7 8-268 1 1 blank 1 colophon 1 blank 8 blank pp. Illustrated with sixty-two wood engravings by Barry Moser. Printed in five colors by Harold P. McGrath on Mohawk Letterpress paper in Van Dijck type. The hand composition was executed at the Press by P. Chase Twitchell with calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge of Hayward California. Bound by David Bourbeau at the Thistle Bindery in Barcham Green Dewint paper over boards the front cover embossed with the title design and lettered in gilt the rear cover similarly embossed and lettered in blind; beige cloth endpapers. A mint copy. Housed in the original beige cloth clamshell case the lower corners slightly bumped. A very fine copy in a near fine clamshell case. Moser's Wonderful Wizard of Oz is among the most imaginative productions of the Pennyroyal Press. Rather than attempting to imitate W.W. Denslow's celebrated illustrations for the 1900 first edition Moser created an entirely new visual interpretation of Baum's story through sixty-two finely worked wood engravings combining traditional book illustration with distinctly contemporary imagery and satirical allusion. Moser deliberately populated Oz with visual references to twentieth-century American life and politics. As he later explained: "Few texts lend themselves to contemporary parody as well as does the Wizard of Oz." Having previously portrayed Richard Nixon as Humpty Dumpty in his Through the Looking-Glass Moser found in Baum's story an even broader opportunity for political and cultural satire directing what he described as "humorous but none-the-less serious darts" at the Reagan administration corporate America and the Moral Majority. Among the most celebrated examples is his transformation of the Wicked Witch into Nancy Reagan. The photographs vividly demonstrate the range of Moser's conception: the familiar inhabitants of Oz are transformed into startlingly individual characters while other illustrations introduce consciously modern elements into Baum's fantastic landscape. The resulting book is not simply an illustrated edition of Baum but a distinctly 1980s reinterpretation of an American classic. Laid in is the separately published companion pamphlet: Barry Moser Forty-Seven Days to Oz: A Chronicle of the Studies for the Illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. West Hatfield: Pennyroyal Press 1985. First edition. Octavo 9 x 6 inches; 229 x 153 mm. 32 pp. The pamphlet provides Moser's own day-by-day account of the creation of the sixty-two illustrations. As he explains in his Author's Note the text was taken directly from the day book in which he recorded the progress of his work making it an especially appropriate accompaniment to the finished volume. The completed book is an impressive example of the modern American private press at its most ambitious: Baum's great American fantasy interpreted by one of the foremost American book illustrators and wood engravers of the late twentieth century conceived illustrated printed and bound as a unified work of book art. Dwyer Pennyroyal 43. West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Printed by Harold McGrath at The Pennyroyal Press, 1985 unknown