(Milano: Olivetti, 1986).

INSCRIBED BY THE FAMOUS 'LIFE' PHOTOGRAPHER TO LONG-TIME 'LIFE' PUBLISHER AND EDITOR CHUCK WHITTINGHAM. This very finely produced Italian publication was produced for the Programma di Iniziative Culturali of the Olivetti company. It contains a great many of the war era photographs for which Phillips is most famous.
The inscription is especially warm and pleasant; "For Chuck WIttingham a good friend and a great publisher - With all best wishes for a Merry Xmas and Wonderful New Year- John Phillips 86." Item #27869

First Edition. This copy is a presentation copy, INSCRIBED to his English language publisher, LIFE founding publisher Charles A. Whittingham, and signed in full by Phillips and dated the year of publication. With 151 photographs by John Phillips, best known for his work for Life Magazine. 4to, publisher's original gray cloth lettered on the spine in white, in the original dustjacket. 193pp. A very fine copy, both book and dustjacket as new.