Skin Deep [SIGNED BY EDITOR]

Guetary, Helene; Patrice Casanova; Tom Hedley (ed.). Skin Deep [SIGNED BY EDITOR]. Los Angeles: Melrose Publishing Company, 1984. First American edition. Signed and dedicated to Gerry by editor on front endpaper. Folio. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over black buckram with blind-stamped lettering on cover. Black endpapers. Double page color frontispiece photograph. Foreword by Frederico Fellini. Collaboration between Helene Guetary, French painter, and French fashion photographer Patrice Casanova. “The images of this book carry the magic of performance, they are born of a rare collaboration between you, your character and Patrice Casanova, who marvelously captured your deliriums in flight… your capacity to transform the poorest materials into sumptuous ornaments, to make rags elegant, to disguise bodies with extravagant and mysterious colors and to mask their face with the carnivalesque quality of your make-up…” (Fellini). Profusely illustrated with fascinating color photographs throughout. DJ with wear along edges, chips, tears and creasing along top and bottom, rubbed. Barely starting at a couple of places. DJ in overall fair, binding and interior in good to good+ condition. Fair-Good+. Hardcover. (38137) $45