May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
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. Preface by Man Ray. Handsomely illustrated with gravure reproductions of Man Ray's photographs, rayograms, and portraits. 4to, spiral-bound photo-pictorial stiff wrappers, lower left edge of text block and cover detatching from binding, crease lower right corner of front cover, rear cover with light soiling and surface rubbing. Roth 80; Auer 210. signed and inscribed by man ray.
Hartford, Connecticut & New York City: James Thrall Soby & Random House, (1934)

Additional Details

Hana Mackler, to whom this book is inscribed, was a well-known boot and fashion designer.