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Lot 312
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$715
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Lot Description
[PHOTOGRAPHY]. STRAND, Paul (1890-1976). The Mexican Portfolio. New York: Da Capo Press, 1967.
Folio. 20 photogravures after Strand, loose as issued. Original linen portfolio; text and plates in paper sleeve with chemise; printed slipcase (few tape repairs to slipcase and chemise at edge).
Second edition, LIMITED ISSUE, number 809 of 1000 copies, SIGNED BY STRAND. A reissue of the 1940 edition of Strand's photographs of Mexico, using the original photogravure plates made by Otto Wackernagel. Strand notes in the limitation statement that he feels the plates are superior to the original printing of 1940.
This lot is located in Chicago.