Superstar

London: Anthony Blond, 1970.

First UK Edition. Black cloth lettered at spine in silvertone with circular motifs. With the price-clipped, pictorial dust-jacket from a photo by Cecil Beaton and coloured title lettering. Light creasing at foot of spine, o/w bright and sharp. A near fine copy. Viva, model, performer and artist, sprang to fame — or infamy — as a sylphlike muse to Andy Warhol in the late 1960s. Largely autobiographical, Superstar is the story of Gloria, a convent-educated aspiring artist who escapes the strictures of her existence for New York City. There she falls for a famous artist referred to as A. and his circle of of outrageous, beautiful avant-garde acolytes, transvestites, boy toys, and hangers-on. Gloria is thus reborn, undergoing a transformation from sheltered young innocent to sexual athlete, film star, and media flashbulb.