Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Photographs and Words

Penn, Irving

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Hardbound. Ivory cloth boards with black writing on spine. 183 pp. 300 illustrations, including 38 in color. Comes in a glossy cardboard slipcase with an illustration. Contains a signature by Betty McLauchlen Dorso. Good/Slipcase Poor. Text is generally clean and binding is tight; a few pages in the front of the book are smudged. Cover shows obvious signs of wear, especially on corners, and many stains/smudges; spine is yellowed. Title on spine is diminishing. Slipcase has many rips and rubbing, many smudges and stains, though still holds together. Item #125281

Contains many photographs of people from around the world, including celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Christian Dior, Salvador Dali, and Yves St. Laurent. Page 144 contains a signature from one of the models pictured, Betty McLauchlen Dorso.