Man Ray

To be continued unnoticed: Some papers by Man Ray in connection with his exposition.

NEWLY LISTED Beverly Hills: Copley Galleries, December 1948. One of 150 regular copies (total edition 275 printed by Lynton R. Kistler, 125 of these with an autographed photograph by Man Ray; this copy is unnumbered). 6 illustrations. 12 + [4] pp. Wrappers. 30.5 x 23 cm. The covers are bright yellow card stock bearing the words “To be.” Large triangles are trimmed off the top and bottom to make a trapezoidal flap (like a fat, truncated pennant). Contents unbound, as issued. Inside the front cover is a light blue folder of card stock bearing only the words “continued unnoticed.” Eight printed leaves follow under the subtitle above. Four are a pale pink coated paper, and the other four are yellow. Think “Easter egg,” and that would be close but for the cover title in extra-bold, 96-point, sans-serif capitals. The last leaf bears the colophon on the recto and press notices from 1943 and 1944 on the verso. The elaborate border on that page looks far more like Bill Copley’s work than anything Man Ray ever did. All three OCLC records note only 12 pp. or 12, [2] pp., but there are 16 pp. here, all of them printed, plus the folder at the front that completes the cover title. Copies in the wild of this vulnerable publication are vanishingly scarce. Very fine, with a little tanning at the extremities and a few small spots on the yellow covers.

• USD 1,000.00 > otras divisas
• nº de pedido: 1026

• librero: Laurence McGilvery (USA)