[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.

Price: $35,000.00

Hardcover. Large nearly square folio. Approximately 13.5" x 14.5". Full black morocco gilt, red morocco doublures, moire silk endpapers. Minor rubbing at the extremities, very near fine. The interior images are immaculate.

Longwell was the editor of *Life* magazine beginning with its inception in 1936. This was presumably the only other copy of the magnificent "going-away-present" given to him when he left the magazine in 1954. After the title page is a typed letter on *Life* letterhead addressed to Longwell: "Dear Dan, We made this album for you because we thought you would like to see and keep a few of the many pictures in *Life* which will always remind us pleasantly of you... ." This is followed by 41 painstakingly printed full-page gelatin silver photographs, with a single page containing four smaller portrait images (for a total of 45 images) mounted on thick card leaves. Most of the larger images are a close variant of 7.5" x 9.25".

The first three images, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, are of Longwell in swimming trunks, drinking and playing croquet with Luce. The rest of the images are beautifully printed images, several of them iconic, from the first two decades of the magazine, many with the photographer neatly identified in pencil below the image. Among the images are nine by Eisenstaedt, three by Hansel Mieth (the second woman photographer to join *Life*, and including her image of a male Macaque monkey in the water seeking escape from the island of Santiago near Puerto Rico), two by Peter Stackpole, two by Robert Capa (one of D-Day), one by Margaret Bourke-White of a battlefield, one by Martin Munkácsi, one by Cecil Beaton (of an injured child in hospital), one by Y?nosuke Natori, one by Eric Schaal, one by Hans Wild (of a Winston Churchill painting), and one by Otto Hagel.

Others include the iconic image of Rita Hayworth by Bob Landry which is the single most famous and most frequently reproduced American pin-up image. Also present is the famous image by Ed Clark of African-American Chief Petty Officer Graham Johnson playing the accordion with tears streaming down his cheeks as F.D.R.'s body was removed from Warm Springs, Georgia. Although unattributed here (by chief photographer of the *Daily Mail*, Herbert Mason) is the great WWII image of St. Paul's Cathedral emerging from behind the smoke and flames of the Blitz.

Among the unattributed images is that of Lauren Bacall seated on the piano while Harry Truman plays; another well-known image of Bob Feller striking out Joe Dimaggio en route to his 1946 no-hitter at Yankee Stadium, and portraits of Walt Disney and other notables.

If this is indeed a "miniature" version, one wonders at the size of the volume that was given to Longwell. A truly noteworthy collection of important images, beautifully prepared, and likely one of only two copies. The location of the second copy seems to be unknown.


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Item #419660 [Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954. Henry R. LUCE.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.
[Cover title]: Henry R. Luce: Miniature of Volume prepared for Dan Longwell. May, 1954. [Title page]: Dan Longwell and Life. Duplicate copy prepared for Henry R. Luce, May, 1954.