Portraits of Greatness

£375.00

Tax included

Yousuf KARSH SKU: 19958

Stock No. 19958

Authors: Yousuf, KARSH

Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1959

First Edition, first printing, with a hand-written card indicating this to be a presentation copy from the author, with the following inscription, "This volume of portraits is inscribed with the good wishes of Yousuf Karsh". Quarto. pp 204, [2]. Withthe excellent dust-jacket (with original glassine, browned) short nick at base of spine. Contains around 100 b/w portraits of celebrities from the first half of the 20th century, ie. Sir Thomas Beecham, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Audrey Hepburn, Augustus John, Somerset Maugham, Queen Elixabeth II, Pablo Picasso, Pope Pius XII, John Steinbeck.