Avedon, Richard. Richard Avedon: Portraits. First edition in wraps.

Noonday Press, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.  A landmark book in Avedon's stellar career, this volume features portraits of well known figures in the arts, politics, and other fields in the photographer's mature style with plain white backgrounds.  The last section is a series of portraits of his father taken over several years near the end of his life.  Among the famous subjects are Willem de Kooning, Truman Capote, John Szarkowski, Robert Frank, The Mission Council (double fold-out), Jean Genet, Alexey Brodovitch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andy Warhol and members of The Factory (double and triple fold-out with some of the men in the nude), Dr. Benjamin Spock, Edmund Wilson, The Chicago Seven (foldout), James Galanos, Rose Mary Woods, William F. Buckley, Jr., George Meany, Buckminster Fuller, Jorge Luis Borge, Igor Stravinsky (foldout), June Leaf, Evelyn Avedon (Avedon's wife), Vladimir Horowitz, Polly Mellen, Muriel Rukeyser, William Burroughs, Oscar Levant, Henry Miller, Carson McCullers, Jean Renoir, Groucho Marx, Dr. R.D. Laing, Isak Dinesen, John Ford, et al. Very good with signs of use on covers, interior pages fine.