Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 1,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BROOM. Loeb, Harold A; editor. Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts. Group of 10 issues (includes duplicate). Comprising: Vol. 1, no. 1 (November, 1921); vol. I, no. 4 (February, 1922); vol. II, no. 2 (December, 1921) 2 copies; vol. 4, no. 2 (January, 1922); vol. 1, no. 4 (February, 1922); vol. 2, no. 1 (April, 1922); vol. 2, no. 2 (May, 1922); vol. 2, no. 3 (June, 1922); vol. 4, no. 1 (December, 1922) incomplete issue lacking last quarter of contents and most artwork; vol. 6, no. 1 (January, 1924; the final issue). 4to, publisher's decorative printed wrappers; brittle, spines defective on many covers detached, chipped and torn on some volumes; light soiling. Rome and New York: Broom Publishing, 1921-24

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a run of the important and influential avant-garde magazine including the first and final issues. Artistic contributions by Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Natalia Gontcharova (who also created some of the covers), Rockwell Kent, Man Ray, Wanda Gag, El Lissitzky, Fernand Leger, Alice Halicka, and many others. Literary contributions by William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, e. e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Jean Toomer, Hart Crane, and others. Its issue numbering system was rather erratic and inconsistent.