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CALDER'S CIRCUS - LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION
(CALDER, ALEXANDER). Lipman, Jean & Nancy Foote. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art & E.P. Dutton & Co., 1972. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Small 4to. Boards in Jacket, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 172pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Ellen Hsiao. With a chronology and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1972 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition of the miniature toy Circus installation created by Alexander Calder during the twenties and thirties. It features archival photographs supplemented by scores of newly photographed images by Marvin Schwartz. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1972 deluxe hardbound first edition limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (69/100) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Calder" in red pencil on the front free endpaper in the publisher's neatly price-clipped dust jacket and red cloth-over-boards slipcase, as issued. 0-525-07305-1 Inventory Number: 024861