Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. No dust jacket. Pages are clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.54 + shipping
Description: dj piece glued on endpapers, owners name in, very good in d.j.
Seller: Ken Saunders, Stirling, ON, Canada
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 25.5x19 cm. 400 pages. Hardcover. Spine slightly worn. Pages yellowing. Coloured pencil markings on first blank page. Binding visible between several pages. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs. The book is in : English
Seller: The Book Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Original black cloth with paper labels. Labels rubbed, endpapers discolored, slight fading; front hinge starting.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$97.90 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 400 pp. A perfectly acceptable study/work/reserch/reading copy with clean text. Pages detached from spine. No dj. Book slightly warped from cover to cover. Light foxing on page edges. Damaged spine.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$166.50 + shipping
Description: Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. 8vo. pp. vii, 400. numerous b/w illus. cloth (pagination shaken, sticker on half-title, corners rubbed with some fraying & few faint stains on covers). Fourth Printing.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Dali, Salvador. THE SECRET LIFE OF SALVADOR DALI. The Dial Press, New York, 1942.
Price: US$6250.00 + shipping
Description: Large, thick octavo. Cloth, with pictorial cover vignette label and spine label. Color double-spread frontis. Illustrations, plates and photographs. Cloth very slightly faded, spine label rather chipped, rear endsheets darkened with gutter discoloration from now absent unknown tip-in. A good copy, without the dust jacket, First edition, trade issue. With a full-page, expansive presentation inscription from Dali incorporting a drawing of a picador-like figure in horeseback: "Pour Jean Deering Hommage Amiable de Salvador Dali 1954." Affixed to the verso of the opposite blank is a 2 3/4 x 4 inch vintage print of a photograph of Dali with the recipient, with a manuscript caption affixed below: "Jean Bartlet Deering Salvadore [sic] Dali St. Regis Hotel, New York, NY 1942." Accompanied by another loose photograph from the same sitting, though somewhat out of focus. Accompanied by yet another photograph, captioned and dated 1943 on the verso, roughly the same dimensions but with the border trimmed, of the recipient posing with Dali's painting "Geopliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man." According to the caption on the verso, Jean Deering owned the painting at the time, which was sold at Dali's first US exhibition at Knoedler's. Also present is a portion of a newspaper clipping with a photograph identifying "pretty, 23-year-old Jean Deering" as the organizer of an exhibition at the Stuart Art Galleries of "psycho-symbolic art."
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.