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Lot 2190
Four Alex Katz Books, Three Artist Signed
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include:

Ann Beattie. ALEX KATZ. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Signed first edition. Hardcover in pink cloth-covered boards with white text on spine and inset text on cover, in dust jacket. Signed by the artist on the half title with an additional label signed and dated by the artist included. (9 1/4 x 10 1/4 in.); 92pp. with 26 plates.

Marlborough Gallery. ALEX KATZ. New York: Marlborough Gallery, Inc., December 1973. Inscribed first edition. Exh. cat. Paperback in glossy wraps. Inscribed on title page: "Barbara Best wishes, Alex Katz." (11 7/8 x 8 1/4 in.); 28pp.

Nicholas P. Maravell. ALEX KATZ: THE COMPLETE PRINTS. New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd., 1983. Inscribed first edition. Hardcover in tan cloth covered boards with black text. (10 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.); 252 pp. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Eva. X X Alex Katz 6-12-84." Catalogue raisonné; includes an interview with the artist and 149 prints, color and b&w plates.

David Sylvester, ed. ALEX KATZ: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PAINTING FROM THE SAATCHI COLLECTION. London: The Saatchi Gallery, 1997. First edition. Hardcover in maroon cloth-covered boards with white text on the spine, in illustrated dust jacket. (11 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.); 230pp. with color plates.


Paperback toned, with marks and light wear to wraps, corners rubbed and bent, light wear and marks to interior, generally clean; overall a good copy. Book on prints with light stain and marks on boards, head and tail of spine and corners rubbed; pages with minor toning, tape and light marks on endpapers, p.252 with slight tear. Remaining hardcovers with some edgewear to boards and some wear to jackets, interiors unmarked; near fine in good to very good jackets.