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(AVERY, SID). Avery Sid & Richard Schickel. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 144pp, profusely illustrated in black & white. "Hollywood at Home" is the first survey of noted Saturday Evening Post and Look photographer Sid Avery's charming studies of mid-century cinema and television royalty captured in moments of unguarded informality. Amongst those pictured here - often with family and pets - are Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Kirk Douglas, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Bob Newhart, and many, many more. A most handsome example of the 1990 Crown Publishers first edition SIGNED "Sid Avery" in black ink on the front pastedown. 0-517-57696-1 Inventory Number: 023785