Fine Books and Manuscripts: Featuring Important Chicago Memorabilia

Artists Equity Association. Improvisations – Artists Equity Masquerade Ball. New York, 1951; 1956; 1957. Three volumes, spiral-bound lithographed wrappers, 4tos, for 1951 (number 206 of 2,000 copies, signed by the chairman, Ernest Fiene, with 58 lithographic advts. including wraps, by artists including Milton Avery, Israel Bishop, Adolf Denn, Antonio Franconi, Leon Kroll, Reginald Marsh, Ben Shahn, Raphael Soyer, Marcel Vertes, Max Weber, and others, one illustration by Chaim Gross signed in pen), wraps detached with some soiling, some chipping at edges; 1956 (number 2,106, advts. by Vertes, Sol Wilson, Gross, Ruth Reeves, Sternberg, John Groth, Rita Leff, Gubin, Soyer, Bertram Goodman, Lily Harmon, Joanne Schneider, and others, the back cover signed in pen by Gross); and 1957 (advts. by Wilson, Goodman, Byron Browne, Vertes Van Veen, Gross, S.M. Adler, G. Whatney, Sternberg, Harmon, and others). Some covers detached, chipping and short tears to edges affecting some ads, but good overall.