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Description:
Meyer, Franz (1919-2007) Marc Chagall Life and Work, Signed and Inscribed Copy with a Drawing. New York: Abrams, [1963].
Quarto, inscribed on half-title opening with a two-page drawing of a figure with a bird and a tree done in green and red ball point ink, signed by Chagall in New York, dated 1966, with the inscription, "le bon souvenir" and the name Rhoda; the book with the original jacket, worn, with tears and losses; illustrated throughout in black and white and color; in publisher's cloth, shaken, boards becoming detached from text block, 11 1/2 x 8 in.
Estimate $3,000-5,000
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