three-modern-art-books-masson-delaunay-and-albers
Lot 4056

Three Modern Art Books: Masson, Delaunay, and Albers

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Théodore Six; André Masson. LE PEUPLE AU PEUPLE. Éditions de delphes, 1964. (48) total leaves in grey card covers including (10) full-page illustrations by Masson, all loose as issued in fringed burlap portfolio with leather straps. (Interior with light toning, offsetting from leather strap and illustrations, and occasional mild edge wear or corner fold, otherwise clean; burlap with some toning, and leather strap not labeled and with area of discoloration; overall very good.)

Sonia Delaunay. ALPHABET. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover, in illustrated glossy boards, in illustrated jacket. 4to; not paginated. (Light shelf wear to boards; first free endpaper with gift inscription and drawing for a previous owner; minor age wear to interior including occasional creasing, a rare mark, and some wear at the gutter at the letter "K"; price-clipped jacket with mild toning, scuffing, and creasing, and a very minor stain on the front. Very good/very good or better dj.)

Josef Albers; François Bucher. DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1977. Revised edition. Hardcover, Quarter black cloth over white boards with printed black wraparound vertical band, in glassine jacket. Square 8vo; 111pp. (Light toning to spine ends and minor residue on boards; minor scuffing to band and glassine; interior with light foxing (concentrated on edges) otherwise clean; very good.)

Largest 13 3/8 x 11 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina