MAN RAY
CIRCA 1935
Details
MAN RAY Photographs. 1920-1934. With a portrait by Picasso. Texts by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy, Tristan Tzara. Hartford, New York, and Paris: James Thrall Soby, Random House, and Cahiers d'Art, 1934. 2° (312 x 238mm). 104 black and white photographs. Original spiral-bound colour photo-illustrated wrappers (light wear at extremities). Provenance: inscription from Man Ray on the title dated 1957. FIRST EDITION, A FINE COPY INSCRIBED BY MAN RAY OF HIS FIRST MONOGRAPH; this copy, as most, with the cancel title bearing the fictitious statement of 'second edition' -- the publisher 'attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out... copies with the original title page are exceedingly rare' (101 Books, pp. 80-81).
