May 20, 2010 - Sale 2215

Sale 2215 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
KERTÉSZ, ANDRÉ.
Of New York . . .
Edited by Nicolas Ducrot. Illustrated with reproductions of Kertész's elegant photographs of the great urban metropolis. 4to, gilt-lettered gray cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket, lightly age-darkened at edges. first edition, signed by kertész and inscribed by lee witkin to howard daitz.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976

Additional Details

The personable and playful inscription, which is dated Christmas 1976, reads: "For Howard Daitz / of whom it's said / every photo book he's read. / I really doubt that this is true / so here's another book for you. / It's autographed by the great André / so save it for a rainy day. / The Poet Witkin (Lee)."