Author: ADEMAR, Jean
Title: Twentieth-Century Graphics
Description: London, Elek, 1971. Hardcover. Translation by Eveline Hart. 8vo. Salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Superb, tight, bright first edition of this survey -- and with surprising autograph addition, for this copy has been extra-illustrated with a tip-in facing the title page (frontispiece, in effect) from a well-known modern practitioner from the printmaking world: A 5" X 6½" glossy heavy stock color picture postcard, a publisher's promotional piece for the book "Mystery" by Arthur Geisert depicts an etching of a note-taking pig studying the back side of a large picture frame, signed boldly in blue fineline by Geisert. Art Geisert (born 1941) is a premiere etcher whose award-winning prints and many children's books often feature pig characters; his work has been exhibited at Chicago's Institute of Art Institute and many other museums. Pristine, with mailing portion verso blank. .

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