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Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Description: Many black & white illustrations. 8vo, stiff pictorial wrappers; rubbed and lightly worn, tip of lower rear corner missing. Montreal: Les Editions de L'Arbre, 1945. A very good (-) copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Montreal 1945 first edition. Les Editions de l'Arbre. Sm4to., 96pp., plus 38 pages of text, wraps. VG . light wear; no owner marks.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.43 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 96, [4], 16 double-sided plates. wrs. (lower corner of plates & covers faintly dampstained; surface tears to lower corners of covers, extremities bit rubbed).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$705.47 + shipping
Description: First edition. Royal octavo. 96 pages. 38 plates. Wrappers. Contains Léger's essay "A Propos du Corps Humain Considéré Comme un Objet", as well as pieces on him by M.-A. Couturier, Maurice Gagnon, S. Giedion, S.M. Kootz and J.J. Sweeney. Introductory poem by François Hertel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the artist on the frontispiece plate: "à C.O. Schniewind - Cordialement - F Leger". The recipient, Carl O. Schiewind, was an art historian and, at the time of the presentation, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Covers a little creased and rubbed at edges. Lower corner of pages bruised all the way through. Very good. On the front free endpaper is the rubber-stamp of The Art Institute of Chicago Department of Prints and Drawings which has been stamped over "Withdrawn". There are no other library marks.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red and black illustrated card covers with the cover title: "F. Legere 1938-44. Les Editions De L'Arbre - Montreal", pp.100 followed by 32 pages containing 38 black & white illustrations. INSCRIBED by Leger: "A. Schapiro / Cordialement / F Leger" on the additional illustrated title-page. Covers a little scuffed, otherwise a very good copy. Text in French. Size: Square Octavo
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Leger, Fernand. LA FORME HUMAINE DANS L'ESPACE. Signed. Les Editions de l'Arbre, Montreal, 1945.
Price: US$5255.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed by Author. Leger, Fernand, LA FORME HUMAINE DANS L'ESPACE. Signed. Montreal, Les Editions de l'Arbre, 1945. Outstanding Association Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Leger on the half-title to Alfred Pellan. "A mon ami Pellan / votre confrere / F. leger." First edition. Squarish 8vo, decorated black and red wrappers, pp. 100. 38 pp. of dramatic black and white reproductions. Very uncommon thus. Poem by Francois Hertel, philosophical argument by Leger, critical text by Maurice Gagnon, M. A. Couturier, S. Giedion, S. M. Kootz and James Johnson Sweeney. Entire text In French. The international art community recognized a half century ago, the truly momentous contribution made by Alfred Pellan, to the arts and none more so than Leger himself, whom Pellan called both an inspirational colleague and a dear friend. During the war years, Leger spent time in North America, living for a brief period in Montreal, where he had an opportunity to enjoy Pellan's company as they had during Pellan's Paris years. Leger Presentations are Rare and Association Copies Impossible to acquire. A fine copy showing just a hint of rubbing. Superb.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada