Weegee by Weegee: An Autobiography

New York: Ziff-Davis, 1961. Hardcover. Good (Ex-Library with a plain white sticker on the lower spine, library markings in pencil on the ffep; DJ is heaviy worn/scuffed/smudged/toned; boards are bumped/scuffed/edgeworn; textblock has toning/scuffing/smudging/foxing; stamp from previous owner on ffep; interior is clean but lightly toned with the occasional scuffing/smudging.). Black and white DJ with white, green and orange lettering; black boards with gilt lettering; 159 pp.; richly illustrated in b&w. "This is the uncensored, cussing confession of the stormy petrel of Photography, the autobiography of Weegee the Famous ('alias' Arthur Fellig) who, in the wild Twenties, Thirties, Forties, Fifties -- and Sixties -- shot them all ... politicians and statesmen, cops and robbers, beer barons and gangsters, strippers and stars ... and whose best photographs -- stark but superb realism -- now hang in the Museum of Modern Art." -- DJ.