Alphabet for Adults (Georges Bataille's copy)
Beverly Hills: Copley Galleries, 1948.
First edition. Signed by Man Ray on the title page with the inscription playing off the title, "et les enfants / Man Ray Paris-62." French philosopher Georges Bataille's copy with his ex libris on front free endpaper; inscribed in the year of his death. Bound in publisher's boards with cloth backstrip. Very Good+ with bumped corners, toning to boards. 39 illustrations from Man Ray; one of only 500 copies printed. Bataille's complex philosophical and critical oeuvre would greatly impact poststructuralist thought in the second half of the 20th century.
Price: $4,500.00
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