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ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS] Group of approximately 40 volumes of antiquarian books from the library of Al Hirschfeld Various places... . Various places, dates and format. Comprising: BLOSSFELDT, KARL. Urformen der Kunst. Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1929. Second edition. Original green cloth; VERVE. Paris: 1929. Volume 8, number 29/30 with Picasso lithographs, worn; CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. The Comic Almanac. London: Hotten, 1835-1843. First series. 2 volumes. Full green morocco by Bayntun, original wrappers bound in; John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character. London: Bradbury, Agnre & Co., n.d. 2 tall volumes. Original decorated cloth; A few issues of Contact, edited by William Carlos Williams; Lot also includes an interesting 1828 manuscript in German, Gauguin's Noa Noa, a large worn folio and a multi-volume work on caricature, a group of Japanese woodblock albums; and others. Moderate wear with some bindings worn or detached. C The Al Hirschfeld Collection