Weegee’s People.

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$750.00

Item Number: 19034

New York: Essential Books/ Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “To Sam Clemente Weegee 1956.” An excellent near fine example with the original very good dust jacket.

By the publication of his second book, Weegee’s People (1946, he had cut the wires to his police radio and had begun to photograph the furred and bejeweled grandes dames at the Metropolitan Opera as well as his beloved street people.