WESTON EDWARD 50 Photographs

Sale 2233 - Lot 297

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WESTON, EDWARD.
50 Photographs.
Designed by Merle Armitage. With 50 beautiful reproductions of Weston's elegant photographs. Folio, printed paper over silver-stamped boards, rubbed at edges. Roth 128; Hasselblad 150; Auer 321. first edition, one of 1500 numbered copies initialed by weston and additionally signed by him "edward," in 1947.
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1947)

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This copy inscribed to Pirkle Jones's wife, Ruth-Marion Baruch, a Bay Area photographer. Her book plate also appears at the front pastedown.

accompanied by--Leaves of Grass, Vols. I & II. By Walt Whitman. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. Elegantly illustrated with reproductions of photographs by Edward Weston taken for this publication. 4tos, gilt-lettered photo-pictorial boards, lightly worn; slipcase. First edition, one of 1500 copies signed and numbered by Weston. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942.
From the Estate of Pirkle Jones.