Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
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