Jean Lipman — The Collector in America

London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first UK edition of this guide to art collecting in America, with the original glassine wrapper. First UK edition. With the vanishingly scarce original glassine wrapper. Illustrated with two hundred black-and-white images and eighty in colour. The art collector in America is a new phenomenon, being a person much more likely to collect artworks for enjoyment, making a highly personal collection. In this volume, we are offered the opportunity to explore thirty private collections and to see the extraordinary versatility and quality of American collecting today. Compiled by Jean Herzberg Lipman, an American artist, collector, and art historian considered a pioneer in the study of American folk art, and the Editors of Art in America. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear to the head and tail of the spine with sympathetic tape reinforcements to the reverse. Original glassine wrapper is also very smart with light creases and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.