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107. STERN, Bert. Marilyn Monroe. The Complete Last Sitting. Text inZusammenarbeit mit Anne Gottlieb. Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 1982.Folio, pp. 463, [1]; colour and black & white plates; whitecloth, photographic endpapers; a fine copy in a very gooddustjacket (creases at foot of spine), slipcase (a few smallmarks only). £1200First edition, contact-sheets and images (portraits,fashion and nudes) from this mammoth three-day shootfor Vogue in June 1962, six weeks before Marilyn’sdeath. From the 2568 images here printed, only 20 wereoriginally published.108. STIEGLITZ, Alfred. Alfred Steiglitz: Photographs and writings. Boston, MA,Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co., 1999.Folio, pp. 248; 73 tritone plates; beige cloth with beige pictorial dustjacket; lowercover faintly scratched; a fine copy in a very good dustjacket. £100Second edition, first printing. Photographs, essays and letters by Stieglitz, withtext by the art historian Sarah Greenough. A valuable resource, first published in1983.109. TALBOT, William Henry Fox. The Pencil of Nature. New Introduction byBeaumont Newhall. New York, Da Capo Press, 1969.4to, pp. [140], with 24 mounted plates (wanting tissue guards); red cloth, gilt,pictorial dustjacket; a fine copy in a near-fine jacket. £375Facsimile edition of Talbot’s classic collection of photographs from paper negatives,published in 1844. The 24 plates were reproduced from the best extant copies ofthe very scarce original.