FIRST EDITION OF EXPOSURES, INSCRIBED AND WITH SKETCHES BY ANDY WARHOL

WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol's Exposures. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1979). Tall quarto, original black cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $3500.

First trade edition, American issue, of Warhol's candid and engaging photobook featuring 360 full-page halftones, signed by Warhol on the front panel of the dust jacket and inscribed by him on the half title: "To Marissa / love / Andy Warhol," with his large original sketch of a broken heart/butterfly initialed by him and a smaller version of the same directly opposite on the front free endpaper.

"I don't think Studio 54 is like pagan Rome. I think it's like junior high school." This collection of Warhol's photographs includes wonderful sections on President Jimmy Carter, Truman Capote, Dalí, Studio 54 and numerous celebrities, artists and musicians. The impromptu artistry of Exposures and other photobooks, expressing "the freewheeling existential exuberance and energy of Warhol… [became] a primary inspiration for the Japanese photobook" (Parr & Badger II:144). "My idea of a good picture," Warhol writes here, "is one of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time." Text co-written with Bob Colacello. Preceded by a signed limited edition of 1000 copies in full morocco; published in the same year as the English issue.

Book in near-fine condition, in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket showing slight toning, verso with tape repairs to two closed edge tears. An attractive signed copy.