POPism: The Warhol ’60s.

WARHOL, Andy and Pat Hackett.

Item Number: 124195

New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

First edition of Warhol’s sensational 1980 memoir. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Association copy, inscribed by Warhol on the front free endpaper, “to D.D. love Andy.” Warhol has also added a small drawing beneath the inscription. The recipient, New York fashionista D.D. Ryan was an editor at Harper’s Bazaar and widely credited for encouraging the “birth” of Kay Thompson’s beloved children’s character Eloise, who lived at the Plaza Hotel. Thompson first conceived of Eloise as a cabaret act and it was Ryan that encouraged her to write a book about the amusing character, resulting in Thompson’s 1955 “Eloise” illustrated by Hilary Knight. Ryan began her career as an assistant to photographer Richard Avedon and later worked as photo editor at Harper’s Bazaar under Diana Vreeland. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Additionally signed by Warhol on the front panel of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom chemise slipcase.

The man whose pictures, parties, films, and life-style set the tone for the sixties here reveals the man behind the Pop mask. In this book, for the first time, he gives the story of the sixties as he lived them, from his initial conquest of the New York art world to the intimate scene at the Factory where he brushed shoulders with such celebrities as Tennessee Williams, Jim Morrison, William S. Burroughs and Jane Fonda and superstars Nico, Viva, and Ultra Violet. Now, looking back more than a decade later, Warhol coolly assesses the whole Pop phenomenon and his place in it in a unique, informal, and absolutely fascinating book.