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THE ROLLING STONE BOOK OF COMEDY - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(SCHIFFMAN, BONNIE). Schiffman, Bonnie & Bill Zehme. Introduction by Billy Crystal. Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 136pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. In 1991 "Rolling Stone" contributors - photographer Bonnie Schiffman and scribe Bill Zehme - collaborated on this amusing book of highly-stylized portraits of a veritable who's who of late Twentieth Century comedians and cartoonists. The sitters include Billy Crystal, David Letterman and Johnny Carson, Jonathan Winters, Bob Newhart, Whoopi Goldberg, R. Crumb, Chevy Chase and Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi, Tracey Ullman, Gilbert Gottfried, George Burns and Bob Hope, Judy Tenuta, Jeff Altman, Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar, Tom Hanks, Gary Larson, Roz Chast, Arsenio Hall, John Goodman, Robin Williams, Penny Marshall and Carrie Fisher, Gary Shandling, Steve Martin, Phyllis Diller, Emo Phillips, Teri Garr, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, The Smothers Brothers, and way too many more to mention. And oh yeah - Spinal Tap! A brand new, most handsome example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "NOV 91 / for ... / Bonnie Schiffman" in the year of publication in black ink on the half title page. 0-8212-1848-4 Inventory Number: 024754