Diana Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace by Mario Testino.

Germany,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no published price to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,b/w portrait photographs by Mario Testino,illustrated dw/dj panels,with white lettering to front,grey background to spine/backstrip with white lettering,rear panel with b/w portrait photograph and black lettered publisher's web address and ISBN barcode.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,or creasing to edges and corners,head+foot of spine/ backstrip with very gentle pushing with miniscule reciprocal creases, rear top edge of dw/dj with a pair of the tiniest of snicks - no other nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished matt,sharp-cornered,wrap-around white background paper-covered boards with glossy but barely discernible off white lettering to front (as produced) and to spine/backstrip,rear board plain white,a white headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.Germany,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 136pp [unpaginated - and excludes free endpapers],a Foreword by Graydon Carter,an Introduction by Meredith Ehterington-Smith,an Interview with Mario Testino by Hamish Bowles all in triplicate and in English,German and French respectively and only those in English accompanied with subject's b/w portrait photograph,a mixture of 62 b/w+colour portrait photographs (61 thumbnails of which are numbered at the rear of the book,),also to the rear,acknowledgements and imprint's details; plus to the front of the book a half-title with blank verso,a title page with subject's b/w portrait photograph to its reverse, a Kensington Palace Exhibition text witha blank verso,and an Edited+ designed by credit (Patrick Kinmonth) also with a blank verso.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally, the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's age and nature, i.e. a coffe-table book.It is only the very miniscule exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading for the dw/dj particularlu. Despite that,it is still really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness and brightness. Book coincides with the exhibition Diana Princess of Wales by Mario Testino at Kensington Palace.London,24th November 2005 - 1st July 2007. Inside Princess Diana's last portrait session.Just five months before her tragic death in August 1997, Diana Princess of Wales was photographed by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair. The book brings together the most beautiful images from this last portrait sitting, which,unlike any other, displays Diana in a state of relaxation and intimacy unlike any other. The selection of some 60 photographs includes many unseen images which, alongside previously published images, fill in the untold story of the shoot. Also included is an interview with Mario Testino about his recollections of the sitting and as well as a contribution from Hamish Bowles, European editor-at-large of American Vogue. The book is edited by Patrick Kinmonth, long-term collaborator and friend of Testino's. It includes foreword by Meredith Etherington-Smith, who played a mayor role in arranging the sitting in 1997, and a Testino interview conducted by Hamish Bowles, and contribution by Hamish Bowles.Chapters/photographs are arranged according to the various dresses worn by Diana Princess of Wales. It includes an appendix with information detailing the dresses featured in the work and identifying those on display at Kensington Palace.
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