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Lot 384

Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$200 - 300

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[Photography] Mapplethorpe, Robert. Group of 4 Titles


1. The Perfect Moment
(Philadelphia): Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, (1988). First edition. 4to. Essays by David Joselit and Kay Larson; dedication by Patti Smith. Illustrated with photographic reproductions after Mapplethorpe. Publisher's stiff printed pictorial wrappers.

2. Flowers
Boston, etc.: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, (1990). First edition. 4to. Foreword by Patti Smith. Illustrated with photographic reproductions after Mapplethorpe. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in black; library ink stamp on front and rear paste-down; library ink stamp on top edge of text block; dust-jacket wanting.

3. Mapplethorpe
New York: Random House, (1992). First edition. 4to. Essay by Arthur C. Danto. Illustrated with photographic reproductions after Mapplethorpe. Publisher's grey cloth, stamped in silver; pencil notations on title-page; in original pictorial slip case.

4. Altars
New York Random House, (1995). First edition. 4to. Essay by Edmund White. Illustrated with photographic reproductions after Mapplethorpe. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in blind and in red; in original pictorial dust-jacket; in original pictorial slip case.

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This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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