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LEE FRIEDLANDER | 'SELF-PORTRAIT: LEE FRIEDLANDER' (INSCRIBED TO ARNOLD CRANE)

Auction Closed

October 3, 04:15 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

LEE FRIEDLANDER

B. 1934

'SELF-PORTRAIT: LEE FRIEDLANDER' (INSCRIBED TO ARNOLD CRANE)


(New City, N. Y.: Haywire Press, 1970, first edition, presentation copy), quarto, original printed wrappers, plastic dust jacket, a book illustrated with 42 images, variant cover printed upside down in sepia on the inside front cover, inscribed 'To Arnold -This is a real mistake and if you turn it back to Haywire within the next ten minutes & a good copy will be sent to you with best pages - Lee' in blue ink; together with the illustrated prospectus, housed in a modern black cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered burgundy leather title label

The book 8½ by 9⅛ in. (21.6 by 23.2 cm.)

The photographer to Arnold Crane

Private collection

Christie's New York, Fine Photobooks from an Important Private Collection, 10 April 2008, Sale 2110, Lot 144