Description
The first edition of Philippe Halsman’s Halsman: Sight and Insight, inscribed to the editor of TV Guide, Merrill Panitt.
Octavo, 186pp, [2]. Brown cloth, title stamped in gilt and black print. Stated “First Printing” on copyright page. Internally clean, solid text block. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $25.00 on front flap, light shelf wear to covers, bright illustrations. Signed on the half-title: “For Merrill, with friendship and many good wishes, Philippe Halsman, 1972.”
From the personal library of Merrill Panitt (1918-1994), the founder and editorial director of TV Guide. During World War II, Panitt served on the staff of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, where he came to the attention of Walter Annenberg, the publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Panitt joined The Inquirer in 1945 and worked with Annenberg to found TV Guide in 1953. He later became the director of Triangle Publications, the publisher of TV Guide, Seventeen Magazine, and many more.
