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BAILEY, David.
Box of Pin-Ups.
First edition, sole impression. This seminal collection of portraits by Bailey is one of the great iconic representations of the Swinging Sixties in London. The subjects typify the newly formed social elite ranging from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones through minor royalty and groovy aristos to film stars, couturiers and gangsters. The mode of publication also hints at a new democratisation. The printing is of lovely quality but photomechanical which meant the cost could be kept down to just three guineas. Copies of this important publication in such nice shape as this complete with both packing inserts have become quite scarce.
Original card clamshell box (380 x 330 mm), containing 36 loose sheets; each a full page half tone reproduction of a photographic portrait with biographical details of the sitter on the verso. Complete with the sheet of plain brown paper and the piece of corrugated cardboard inserted as packaging. Contents in superb condition, the white box shows some very minor dust soiling. with five small brown marks to the lid, only a single split to one bottom corner. A lovely example.
