Lot 255V
SIGNED BY MAN RAY MAN RAY. Photographs 1920-1934 Paris.
With a portrait by Picasso. Texts by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sélavy, and Tristan Tzara. Handsomely illustrated with photogravures after Man Ray's rayographs, portraits, nudes, abstractions, and solarized imagery. 4to, photo-pictorial spiral-bound wrappers, just light edgewear; enclosed in a clear acetate dust jacket. Roth 80; Auer 210. first edition, signed and inscribed by man ray in 1934.
Hartford, Connecticut: James Thrall Soby, [1934]
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Copies of this book without the ficticious "Deuxième édition" title page are extremely rare. The publisher, in an attempt to create demand where none had existed, recalled a large portion of the run of this book and replaced the title page with a stated second edition title page.
