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Large hardcover, folio size volume bound in patterned paper covered boards, in publisher’s glossy pictorial dust-jacket. 360 pages. Introduction by Susan Bernard. Illustrated with hundreds of iconic glamor photographs, chiefly in color, by Bruno Bernard. First edition, first printing with no additional printings listed. A stunning collection of classic glamor photography from Hollywood’s golden age. Having fled Hitler’s Germany in 1837 Bernard opened his first studio on the Sunset Strip in 1942. He is credited with first photographing Marilyn Monroe at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs, California, in 1947, when she was still Norma Jeane, and the rest is history. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large, very heavy book. Priority and International customers are advised to contact us before ordering for a postage quote, we charge at the cheapest retail rate available.