$250
Number 1. Edited by David Hare. New York: VVV, 1942. 4to, publisher's green printed covers with cover illustration by Max Ernst. The first number of this influential publication, which featured a number of artists and writers displaced by WWII, along with their American counterparts, including written contributions by William Carlos Williams, Andre Masson, Robert Motherwell, Kurt Seligmann, Harold Rosenberg and Claude Levi Strauss, and illustrations by Picasso, Matta, de Chirico, Bouchard, Irving Penn and many others. Fading to wraps with light rubbing to spine edges and corners; small tears to upper edge back wrap; brown spots to title page. [Together with:] First series, number 2. Paris: Editions des Chroniques du Jour, May-June, 1938. 4to, publisher's color printed wraps. With contributions by Man Ray, Picabia, Kurt Seligmann, Jean Arp, Joan Miro and others. Intermittent spotting; toning and light edgewear to wrappers.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2015-05-07
