Eipeldauer, Heike, Ingrid Brugger and Gereon Sievernich, eds. — Meret Oppenheim: Retrospective

Ostfildern, Austria, Hatje Cantz / Bank Austria Kunstforum, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line at present. This is an absolutely stellar condition copy, bound handsomely in publisher's original gray cloth covers, with sharp and distinctive black lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. With contributions by the three editors, but also by Elisabeth Bronfen, Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Matthias Frehner, Isabel Schulz, Lisa Wenger, and Belinda Grace Gardner. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 312 pp., with 264 illustrations, mostly colored, partly full-page, some being in full-page, full-color glory. "Frühstück im Pelz", a fur-covered mug, brought Meret Oppenheim a membership card in the genre of art known as Surrealism, but she also soon became a feminist figure of identification and inspiration and was a working artist until she died in 1985.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,