AL HIRSCHFELD “THE WORLD OF HIRSCHFELD” BOOK.
Item Description
10.75x11.75” hardcover with 233 pages. This is first edition published in 1970 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and features 189 illustrations including 32 full color plates. Book includes portraits of notable celebrities including Jimmy Durante, Charlie Chaplin, Ray Bolger, Carol Channing, Walt Disney, F.D.R. as well as an image of David Merrick as Santa Claus. Other sections include Early Lithographs, Theater (featuring Peter Ustinov, Barbra Streisand, Josephine Baker, Alec Guinness ), Movies (featuring Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, West Side Story, The Miracle Worker, The Road To Hong Kong, Dr. Zhivago), Television (featuring The Jackie Gleason Show, The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Rawhide), Color Portfolio (featuring Ghandi, Thomas E. Dewey, Winston Churchill, Louie Prima, Lionel Hampton, Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Charles DeGaulle, Lena Horne, Red Skelton, Harry S. Truman, Liberace, Burns & Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope), Personalities (featuring Laurel Bacall, Walter Cronkite, Ed Sullivan, Burl Ives, Boris Karloff, Judy Garland), Unlikely Casting (featuring Zero Mostel as Peter Pan, Carol Channing as Lady Macbeth, Buddy Hackett as Hamlet, Burt Lahr as King Lear), Famous Feuds (featuring Marlene Dietrich and Carol Channing), Portrait of the Artist (featuring Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and Dali), Around the World and many, many more illustrations. Additional photos on line. A superb and comprehensive collection. Dust jacket shows lt. wear. Fine. Book itself is VF with Exc./N. Mint content. See Hirshfeld card album item #2193.