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(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut & Philippe Garner. New York: Stonehill Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Good +/Good +. 128pp, 55 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Bea Feitler. Published in 1976, "White Women" was the very first survey in book form of Helmut Newton's decadence-laden images originally primarily created as editorial work for French, British and American "Vogue", "Vogue Homme", "Oui", "Playboy", and "Stern". Amongst the immediately recognizable subjects here are Charlotte Rampling, Veruschka Lehndorff, Elsa Peretti, Loulou de la Falaise, Karl Lagerfeld, Paloma Picasso, David Hockney, Annie Duperey, June Newton, and the photographer himself. An internally handsome example (cited on page 93 of "From Fair to Fine 2") only of the 1984 Stonehill American first hardbound edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For Jan / Helmut Newton" in blue and red ink across the title page showing some mild discoloration across the edges of the cloth covers along with some dampstaining and rippling to the rear cover and top edge of the last several pages. The dust jacket also shows some attendant discoloration and dampstaining along the top edge of the rear panel as well as a short closed tear at the upper foredge corner on the front. And in a quirky turn of events, Newton began the inscription with a blue pen that seems to have malfunctioned, and so the front pastedown shows several spirals and attempts to get the ink to flow properly before presumably switching to the red pen that constitutes all but the initial "F" of the final presentation. All in all this is a most presentable inscribed copy of this significant title that looks far better in hand than it describes. It has been priced accordingly. 0-88373-053-7 Inventory Number: 024337