Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Approximately a dozen books from the working library of artist Mary Abbott (American, 1921-2019); most with her ownership name on the front endpaper; with occasional handwritten notation or commentary by her; an exhibition book for
de Kooning: drawings/sculptures organized by the Walker Art Center in 1974 and
Willem de Kooning by Thomas B. Hess, published for MOMA; also, five books inscribed to Mary Abbott by her friend Barbara Guest, a North Carolina poet; a book of poetry by Mary Abbott's mother, inscribed to her with a poem; a two-volume set,
The Drawings of Paul Cezanne;
Byzantine Paintings,
Ravenna Mosaics,
Kishangarh Paintings; and others.
Some with dust jacket wear and tear, commensurate with age; some with toning to pages (particularly the 1928 Nonsuch Press copy of Dante's
Divine Comedy).