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LA PHOTOGRAPHIE N'EST PAS L'ART
by MAN RAY (EMMANUEL RADNITZKY) (1890-1976)
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Saratoga, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris, GLM Editions G[uy]. L[évis]. M[ano]., 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Twelve halftone plates and five sheets of text. Unbound as issued, on yellow coated stock, laid into blue wrappers and an outer black wrapper with a cutout window (often missing or damaged). Cutout area displays some slight fading.
Described by Parr as "Duchampian ready-mades." (Parr / Badger, v.1, 108-109. Ref: Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 pp. 167; Parr & Badger, Le Livre de photographies une histoire: Tome 1 pp. 109; M.+ M. Auer, 802 Photo Books from the collection pp. 242. Near Fine in wrappers with very slight fading in the square title. A fine copy. Housed in a custom made clamshell box in blue cloth.
Please excuse photo of front cover. Colors are not true with an I-phone.
Described by Parr as "Duchampian ready-mades." (Parr / Badger, v.1, 108-109. Ref: Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 pp. 167; Parr & Badger, Le Livre de photographies une histoire: Tome 1 pp. 109; M.+ M. Auer, 802 Photo Books from the collection pp. 242. Near Fine in wrappers with very slight fading in the square title. A fine copy. Housed in a custom made clamshell box in blue cloth.
Please excuse photo of front cover. Colors are not true with an I-phone.
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- Bookseller
- L'Estampe Originale
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2461
- Title
- LA PHOTOGRAPHIE N'EST PAS L'ART
- Author
- MAN RAY (EMMANUEL RADNITZKY) (1890-1976)
- Illustrator
- MAN RAY (EMMANUEL RADNITZKY) (1890-1976)
- Format/Binding
- Some fading
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- GLM Editions Guy. Lévis. Mano
- Place of Publication
- Paris/New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MAN RAY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; 20th Century French Books; Photography;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
L'Estampe Originale
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About the Seller
L'Estampe Originale
Biblio member since 2009
Saratoga, California
About L'Estampe Originale
L'estampe Originale, founded in 1978 by Sandra Sofris Dolmatch, MFA, is a private art and antiquarian book dealer devoted to the research and selling of fine original prints, drawings, paintings, and sculpture- old master, nineteenth and twentieth century. It is a small company based on the traditional European model, that is to say with a medium sized and varied inventory embracing both major artists and minor, expensive and inexpensive. The list of writers, publishers and artists represented in our inventory is numerous, the techniques include a variety of drawings, etchings, engravings, aquatints, mezzotints, dry points, lithography, woodcuts, wood engravings, screen prints and a selection of mixed media. Although we are by nature generalists in the field, we have particular strengths in 19th and 20th century prints, paintings, and rare books. Sandra has been a member of ABAA, CINOA and ILAB since 1980. She numbers among her clients, private collectors, art dealers, libraries, foundations, as well as museums and rare book rooms in Europe, Asia, and Australia. You will find many of her antiquarian books, prints, and drawings as L'estampe Originale on the following websites:www.abaa.orgwww.biblio.comwww.abebooks.comwww.ilab.comor my own website at www. lestampeoriginale.com
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- Clamshell Box
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