Jul 15, 2021 - Sale 2576

Sale 2576 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Bourke-White, Margaret (1904-1971)
Shooting the Russian War, Signed Presentation Copy, and Other Material.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942.

First edition, in the dust jacket, signed and inscribed to Alex Williams, with a silver gelatin photo of Bourke-White in uniform during the Russia trip taken by Williams pasted inside the front board, octavo, in publisher's cloth (spine sun-faded and chipped, corners bumped and rubbed, in a somewhat rough jacket); [together with] Bourke-White's Twenty Parachutes, Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2002, octavo, one of 1,000 copies; [and] an untitled Bourke-White black-and-white 8 x 10 in. photo taken for Life Magazine Set #14264, an aerial photograph taken in Italy with the air artillery in 1944, showing damaged buildings, with identifying stamps on verso. (3)