May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 450
(BURNS, M.D., STANLEY B.)
Sleeping Beauty, Memorial Photography in America * Harms Way.
Together, 2 volumes. The latter edited by Joel-Peter Witkin and with a preface by Eugenia Parry Janis. Each illustrated with reproductions of nineteenth-century medical photography and post-mortems. 4tos, blue and black cloth; printed dust jackets. the former a first edition, each signed and inscribed by burns.
(Pasadena, California): Twelvetrees Press, 1990 & (Santa Fe, New Mexico): (Twin Palms), (1994)