Self Portrait

First Edition, 1963. 402 pages. 

Book measures 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Black cloth. First Printing. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book issued by Little, Brown, and Company. Includes 35 illustrations throughout the text. Man Ray's autobiography of his remarkable life as painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer, where he relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical drawing classes in a Brooklyn high school, to the glamorous and heady days of Paris in the 1940s. Ray tells everything he knows of artists, socialites and writers such as Matisse, Hemingway, Picasso and Joyce, Lee Miller, Nancy Cunard, Alberto Giacometti, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst and many more, in this decadent, sensational account of the early twentieth-century cultural world. 

Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket showing some rubbing and light wear to edges. One tiny closed tear to edge of back cover. Binding is solid.