HOLBORN, Mark and Dimitri LEVAS. Mapplethorpe.

(New York, NY): Random House, 1992.  First edition.  Large thick quarto.  32cm by 30cm.  380 pages.  Essay by Arthur C. Danto.  The definitive collection of nearly three hundred duotone photographs that chronicle the development of Mapplethorpe’s career, in a collection that includes his society portraits, nudes, floral still life’s, and explicit erotic images.  A very good copy in dust jacket housed in publisher’s matching slipcase.