Nothing Personal. Photographs by Richard Avedon and text by James Baldwin.

Nothing Personal. Photographs by Richard Avedon and text by James Baldwin.

New York:

Dell Publishing Company,

1965.

In 1964, James Baldwin and Richard Avedon were both at the height of their fame when they collaborated on Nothing Personal, published in a large format by New York’s Atheneum Press with four short pieces by Baldwin and large, full-bleed photographs by Avedon. This copy of Nothing Personal is from the smaller, inexpensive reprint edition published by New York’s Dell Publishing in 1965. The third of Baldwin’s essays is copiously underlined and annotated in pen by James H. Funston, who inscribed his name on the front flyleaf and who is listed as a biology instructor at The College of the Holy Cross in 1971.

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