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BAILEY, David.
Box of Pin-Ups.
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1965]
Stock code: 62676
Price: £7,500 Currency Conversion
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 democratization. The printing is of lovely quality but photomechanical which meant the cost could be kept down to just three guineas.
Original card clamshell box (380 x 330mm), containing 36 loose plates; each a full page half tone reproduction of a photographic portrait with biographical details of the sitters on the verso. Edges of box lightly rubbed with a couple of light scuff marks to the lid, split to each corner but archivally repaired, plates bright and clean. With the plain brown paper and the piece of corrugated cardboard inserted as packaging.
