NAKED HOLLYWOOD by Weegee - 1953: Text by Mel Harris.

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Unpaginated. Yellow cloth spine over black boards. B/W images from the inimitable Weegee.Book in very good condition. Unmarked with light shelf wear to covers. No dust jacket.

E-111: Pellegrini & Cudahy. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Pellegrini & Cudahy. 1953. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. In 1946, the tabloid photographer known as Weegee relocated from New York City to Los Angeles. Abandoning the grisly crime scenes for which he was best known, Weegee trained his camera instead on Hollywood celebrities, starlets, autograph seekers, and shop-window mannequins, sometimes distorted through trick lenses and multiple exposures. “Now I could really photograph the subjects I liked, ” said Weegee of his newfound career in Los Angeles, “I was free." E-111; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: PELLIGRINI & CUDAHY.. 1953. First Edition. Near fine in a Vg.+ dj. (A few faint soil spots on cloth. Corner tips slightly tapped. Top 1 1/4"-inch of spine on dj. chipped, effecting "Na in "Naked." Creasing & tears at upper edge of front panel of dj.) Despite the issue at spine & upper edge of front cover, a solidly attractive copy. .

New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1953. 4to. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto. Original quarter yellow cloth, black boards, titles to cloth in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. dust jacket rubbed and creased to edges, chip to upper corner, price of 5.00 not clipped. First Edition. The follow-up to Weegee’s infamous Naked City.

New York: Pellagrini and Cudahy, 1953. First edition. Boards, slight shelf wear on bottom edge, otherwise a fine copy, slight spotting on the inside of the (otherwise) fine, unworn dust jacket. Inscribed by Weegee "to George Sakal who sold me my first 35 m.m. camera, and showed me how to use it -- Many Thanks. Weegee / Worlds Greatest Photographer /1954"