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BEARD, MARK. Nineteen Famous People, Twenty-Two Friends and Six Nudes. Hand-colored photographs by Beard transfer-printed onto handmade Arches paper by Craig Fry and Beard with additional hand-coloring. Folio, contents loose as issued in printed wrappers, gentle creasing to first two signatures; hand-made clamshell box by Judith Ivry of grey cloth with inset cover label. New York: Freard Press, 1992
number five of only ten copies signed by beard. Among Beard's friends and famous people are: Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams, Henry Geldzahler, Robin Byrd, Pat Loud, Quentin Crisp, John Corigliano, Michael Feingold, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Virgil Thomson. General photographs include subjects entitled New York Celebrities, Three Gentlemen, Three Serious Ladies, A Playwright and Poet, are interleaved between the portraits. Beard's warm recollections and comments about each subject are type-set by Jim Fredrikson and Ted Danforth after Beard's own handwriting. It is the first book both created and published by Beard.
