Of Women And Their Elegance
1980. Hardcover quarto with black cloth boards and dust jacket, 288pp, autographed by Norman Mailer in ink on title page, 28.8 x 22.3cm. Remainder mark to lower edge. Dust jacket protected in plastic. Published by Simon and Schuster, New York. First edition. Photographs by Milton H. Greene with text by Norman Mailer. Of Women and Their Elegance is “an imaginary memoir” about Marilyn Monroe by Norman Mailer, who never met her. “The book is written completely in first person, and repeatedly expresses the innermost thoughts of Monroe.” The photographs by Milton H. Greene sit alongside text taken from interviews with Marilyn Monroe. Photographs of other celebrities such as Audrey Hepburn, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, and Jane Fonda are also illustrated in this volume. This is the second book that Mailer has published about Marilyn Monroe. The first is Marilyn: A Biography (1973). Ref: Wiki. See #172.
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