Portraits of Greatness (signed copy)

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]. With the 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 Elizabeth II, Pablo Picasso, Pope Pius XII, John Steinbeck.