Kootz, Samuel — Modern American Painters

Norwood, MA, Original Editions / Brewer & Warren Inc. / The Plimpton Press, 1930. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with red lettering on color and spine, bw dustjacket. 9 preliminary leaves, 3-64 pages, 1 leaf, 60 plates 29 cm. "It is a fact, if not a particularly strange on, that the present-day painters of Paris are better known in this country than our own artists. A handbook or guide to the ideas and works current amongst us has long been needed and this Mr. Kootz has tried to supply at the same time that he has attempted to clear the ground about him critically." - from 1930 dustjacket. G/B (book has significant signs of wear, including discoloration on textblock / dustjacket is torn in several places & also discolored - readable & all pages intact, but with significant age & wear) .