42nd Street Studio

New York: Pyxidium Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Association copy: signed and inscribed by Baronio to photographer Joe Gioia. Folio (38.5 cm), pp. unpaginated [96]. Gray photographic boards and jacket with $40 price. Gray endpapers. Full-page black and white photographic plates or Baronio's models, mostly nudes, shot in her 42nd St. studio. Forward by Baronio, introduction by Linda Nochlin. Bumping and staining to foot of spine. The last three plates are creased at the top corner, with a half-inch tear in the white border outside the photos.Gioia was a senior editor at Modern Photography, a contributing editor at American (truncated) Photo, an early contributor to Salon[dot]com, and the author of The Guitar and the New World: A Fugitive History and Divide's Guide to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book comes from his private estate. (Inventory #: 36148)