Self-portrait : book people picture themselves / from the collection of Burt Britton.

Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York : Random House, [1976]
Copyright Date©1976
Description271 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 24 cm
Subjects
Authors--Portraits.
Drawing.

Other author/creatorBritton, Burt compiler.
Other author/creatorWright, Stuart, 1948- former owner.
Other author/creatorEberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, inscriber.
Other author/creatorWagoner, David autographer.
Other author/creatorWilbur, Richard, 1921-2017 autographer.
Other author/creatorMerrill, James, 1926-1995 autographer.
Other author/creatorUpdike, John autographer.
Other author/creatorDickey, James autographer.
Other author/creatorBooth, Philip, 1925-2007 autographer.
Other author/creatorNemerov, Howard, 1920-1991 autographer.
Other author/creatorMoss, Howard, 1922-1987 autographer.
Other author/creatorGarrett, George, 1929-2008 autographer.
Other author/creatorBell, Marvin, 1937-2020 autographer.
Other author/creatorKafka, Kimberly, autographer.
Other author/creatorHannah, Barry autographer.
Other author/creatorSwenson, May autographer.
Other author/creatorGaddis, William, 1922-1998 autographer.
Other author/creatorGass, William H., 1924-2017 autographer.
Other author/creatorMotherwell, Robert autographer.
Other author/creatorChappell, Fred, 1936-2024 autographer.
Other author/creatorSnodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009 autographer.
Other author/creatorKunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006 autographer.
Other author/creatorCiardi, John, 1916-1986 autographer.
Other author/creatorWelty, Eudora, 1909-2001 autographer.
Other author/creatorStyron, William, 1925-2006, autographer.
Other author/creatorPercy, Walker, 1916-1990 autographer.
Other author/creatorTaylor, Peter, 1917-1994, autographer.
Other author/creatorPrice, Reynolds, 1933-2011 autographer.
Other author/creatorHollander, John autographer.
Other author/creatorAmmons, A. R., 1926-2001 autographer.
Other author/creatorHecht, Anthony, 1923-2004 autographer.
Other author/creatorMeredith, William, 1919-2007 autographer.
Other author/creatorStrand, Mark, 1934-2014, autographer.
Other author/creatorShapiro, Karl, 1913-2000 autographer.
Other author/creatorSimpson, Louis, 1923-2012 autographer.
Other author/creatorWarren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 autographer.
Partial contents Saul Bellow -- Jorge Luis Borge -- Raymond Carver -- Roald Dahl -- Robertson Davies -- Margaret Drabble -- Nora Ephron -- Jules Feiffer -- Edward Gorey -- Lillian Hellman -- John Irving -- Erica Jong -- James Kirkwood -- Norman Mailer -- Arthur Miller -- Brian Moore -- Toni Morrison -- Zero Mostel -- S.J. Perelman -- George A. Plimpton -- James Purdy -- Mordecai Richler -- Philip Roth -- William Saroyan -- Maurice Sendak -- Irwin Shaw -- Susan Sontag -- William Steig -- Anne Tyler -- John Updike -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Tennessee Williams -- Tom Wolfe -- Andrew Wylie.
Local noteInscribed on fly-leaf "for Stuart [Wright] from Dick [Richard Eberhart] 1981." Inscribed on front endpapers with illustrations and autographs from multiple authors: David Wagoner, Richard Wilbur, James Merrill, John Updike, James Dickey, Philip Booth, Howard Nemerov, Howard Moss, George Garrett, Marvin Bell, Kimberly Kafka, Barry Hannah, May Swenson, William Gaddis, William H. Gass, Robert Motherwell, Fred Chappell, W. D. Snodgrass, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Eberhart, and John Ciardi. Inscription and drawing by Karl Shapiro glued in front fly-leaf. Inscription and drawing by Louis Simpson glued in at colophon. Autographed at their contributions by: Eudora Welty, William Styron, Walker Percy, Peter Taylor, Reynolds Price, Barry Hannah, John Hollander, A. R. Ammons, Anthony Hecht, W. D. Snodgrass, William Meredith, Richard Wilbur, Mark Strand, Robert Penn Warren, and James Dickey. Includes dust jacket. Laid in is a note from William Jay Smith to Wright (ca. 1976). Stuart Wright Book Collection #173.32. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Stuart Wright Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General noteConsists of reproductions of over 500 self-portraits of mostly authors and artists.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012
Issued in other formOnline version: Self-portrait. 1st ed. New York : Random House, ©1976
Genre/formPortraits.
LCCN 75010271
ISBN0394496485
ISBN9780394496481
ISBN0394731042 (pbk.)
ISBN9780394731049 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner Stuart Wright Collection PN453 .S46 1976 ✔ Available Request Material