Sale 2497 - Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics, January 29, 2019

142 c   (BRANCUSI, CONSTANTIN.) Haulica, Dan. Brancusi ou l’Anonymat du Génie. 43 black-and-white photographic plates by Dan Er. Grigoresco, many full- and double-page, and 3 large folding hors - text plates laid in rear. Tall folio, slubbed linen lettered in black along spine, covers slightly bowed; original photographic dust jacket, clear coating blistering along spine and edges; plates clean, hinges starting. Contemporary gift inscription on blank facing title-page. Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 1967   [600/900] one of 500 copies of this scarce and superb study of the great sculptor with striking, dramatic photographs of his work by Grigoresco. This copy out-of-series. 141 142 141 c   BOLTIN, LEE; andDOREASHTON. Poets and the Past: An Anthology of poems, and objects of art of the Pre- Columbian past. Photographs by Lee Boltin. 8vo, 1 / 4 gilt-lettered green leather over marbled boards, ends and edges rubbed. ashton ’ s own copy . number two of only fifty special copies signed by all the contributing poets including Theodore Roethke, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wilbur, Stanley Kunitz, W.S. Merwin, Octavio Paz, Louise Bogan &Cecil Day Lewis. New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, (1959)   [350/500]