Dali

1965 · ref. 21524 — Greenwich Connecticut: The New York Graphic Society 1965. 1965. Good. - Quarto 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Grayish-white marbled boards backed with a black cloth spine titled in gilt on the spine. The book is housed in its original white slipcase with a full-page illustration mounted on the case's front cover. The slipcase is rubbed and soiled with short tears to the edges. 74 & 1 pages illustrated with a tipped-in portrait frontispiece by Halsman and 27 tipped-in color plates of Dali's jewelry with descriptive text on the facing page. The plate opposite page 52 is torn and creased along its right edge. Good. Inscribed and signed on the front endpaper by Owen Cheatham the owner of the collection. Laid in with the book is the 12-page exhibition catalog with a descriptive index of the jewels. The 8-1/2 inch high by 5-1/2 inch wide catalog is bound in gilt-titled white wraps with a yellow silk cord at the spine. Greenwich, Connecticut: The New York Graphic Society, (1965). paperback