MAN RAY Photographs 1920-1934. With a Portrait by Picasso - Texts by André Breton Paul Elua...

MAN RAY Photographs 1920-1934. With a Portrait by Picasso - Texts by André Breton Paul Eluard Rrose Sélavy Tristan Tzara... second edition [sic], PRESENTATION COPY FROM MAN RAY, inscribed in pink ink on the Contents leaf 'Pour Yvonne/ de son plus vieux ami Man Ray', title and texts in English and French, 104 photographic plates, occasional slight offsetting from image and light toning, publisher's ring binder with plastic spiral spine and card covers illustrated with a colour photograph by Man Ray, slight wear at edges and corners, front wrapper with 2 or 3 creases and beginning to split at foot of joint, housed in cloth solander box [Roth 80; Parr & Badger I: 108], 4to, Hartford, James Thrall Soby, New York, Random House and Paris, Cahiers d'Art, [1934] Footnotes: PRESENTATION COPY OF MAN RAY'S FIRST PHOTOBOOK, with 104 heliogravures of his photographs and Rayographs, 'regarded by some as amongst the greatest of the 20th century' (Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, 2004-2008)). The texts are by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rose Sélavy [Marcel Duchamp], Ray himself and Tristan Tzara, and the subjects of the photographs include James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Le Corbusier, Eisenstein, Dali, Matisse, Braque, Picasso, Eluard and Duchamp. The recipient of this copy may have been Yvonne Chastel, whom Man Ray had met through Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp had lived with Chastel in Buenos Aires and moved into her Montparnasse apartment in 1921, where Man Ray was offered a spare room free of charge. The title-page is in the second state, with the wording 'second edition'. According to Roth this was added by the publisher in an attempt 'to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out... After replacing the title pages of these copies... with one stating second edition, he returned them for sale' (Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century, 2001). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing