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GROSZ, GEORGE. George Grosz Drawings. Original signed watercolor tipped to front blank (140x90 mm; 5 1/2x3 1/2 inches), 52 monochrome plates with frontispiece, single-page plate, and double-page plate, all with hand-coloring over lithography. 4to, original 3/4 blue morocco gilt over cloth, joints split as usual; internally fine; publisher's slipcase. New York: H. Bittner and Co., 1944
Number one of only twelve copies of Grosz's own artist's limited edition, with his manuscript colophon and containing an original watercolor and the hand-colored plates. Signed in ink beneath watercolor and frontispiece and warmly Inscribed to Eleanor and Seymour (Berkson): "to remember his prophetic talk about world politics. With love to you both from George." Undated. Berkson, publisher of the New York Journal-American, was active in civic causes. Eleanor was a major figure in the American fashion industry and founded such major annual events as New York Fashion Week, The Met Gala, among others.
