Faces & Facts: By and About 26 Contemporary Artists (In Dustjacket)

Privately Printed, 1937. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Charming 1937 privately-printed collection of caricatures (more accurately, self-caricatures) by some of the leading artistic lights of the day, such as James Thurber, Rockwell Kent, Otto Soglow, James Montgomery Flagg, John Vassos, Max Beerbohm, Peter Arno, Peggy Bacon, Charles Dana Gibson, Tony Sarg, Ralph Barton et al. A very impressive copy to boot, IN A BRIGHT EXAMPLE OF ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($5.00), Near Fine dustjacket, with one tiny chip at the front panel's lower-edge and another tiny chip (the size of a pinhead) to the spine. Limited to 526 "numbered and signed" copies, though this copy is neither numbered nor signed. Octavo, deckled fore and bottom-edges. The artists's caricatures appear along the versos, informative full-page biographies along each facing recto.