Photographs 1920-1934 Paris; With a Portrait By Picasso -- Texts By Andre Breton * Paul Eluard * Rrose Selavy * Tristan Tzara -- Preface By Man Ray

Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934. Second Edition. Original Wraps. Orig. illustrated front cover. Near fine. Unpaginated. 30 x 23 cm. 104 full-page black and white gravure reproductions of photographs and photograms. This title sold at Christie's, May 18, 2006 for $8928.00 with the following note, "This has the cancel title bearing the fictitious statement of `second edition'. According to 101 Books, pp.80-81, the publisher `attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out." This so called second edition issued the same year as the initial edition, Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitsky in Philadelphia, raised in Brooklyn: he was called "Manny" as a nickname, changed his first name to Man at approximately the same time his family officially changed their surname to Ray in reaction to anti-Semitism prevalent at the time. He is noted for his photograms which he renamed rayographs: nineteen appear in this work. The text is bilingual, internally a near excellent copy, including the original wrappers of a publication notorious for defects. The monochromes herein engraved and printed in France with the cover and binding executed by Draeger Freres. Original fragile plastic spiral binding replaced with solid reback.