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Sontag, Susan (Author); Penn, Irving (Photographer) & Editors of Vanity Fair Magazine : Vanity Fair Magazine Issue: Susan Sontag Cover Appearance

Conde Nast Publications, New York City, NY, 1983

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 164 pages. Scarce Susan Sontag collectible item. The October 1983 Issue. Features the American author on the Cover of Vanity Fair Magazine. This is the third of five consecutive Issues in 1983 that featured great living writers on the cover: Italo Calvino (August); Philip Roth (September); Susan Sontag (October); Francine du Plessix Gray (November); and Woody Allen (December). Vanity Fair commissioned the late great Irving Penn to photograph all of them, and all five portraits, taken in extreme close-ups, are among the photographer's finest work. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. Contributions by various writers, journalists, photographers, and columnists. Printed on thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Unlike most books, magazines are still printed in the United States, with stunning results. Encased in its own protective plastic sleeve. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Sontag on the cover of Vanity Fair Magazine. The occasion is the appearance of her great essay, "On Poet's Prose", which is one of the central pieces in her final essay collection, "Where the Stress Falls" (2001). As such, the former represents the very first appearance of the essay (almost twenty years before the book) in published form. The Issue also includes some of the very best essays, feature articles, and fiction that Vanity Fair Magazine has ever published, making it a "keepsake" rather than a "throwaway". Plus, the rare appearance of a beloved author on the cover of a mainstream, mass-circulation magazine is an experience that readers will not be privileged to have ever again. Susan Sontag died on December 28, 2004. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, Issue for Susan Sontag and Vanity Fair collectors. This Issue is now collectible. This is one of few copies still available online, is encased in its own protective plastic sleeve, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

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