Has God Been Insulted Here?
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1952. First Trade Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Small 8vo. Pp. 40. Frontis. author portrait. Black cloth, titles printed in yellow on the cover: binding starting between last two signatures. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket with price $1.25 intact on the front flap: edges a tad rubbed, small, shallow chip on rear panel. A bright, presentable copy. Very Good / Very Good+. Item #6440 Uncommon in the dust jacket, which is preserved here in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
First trade edition of a tract initially published privately, with only 21 pages, in 1951, New York. An attack on non-realistic modern art by the free-spending heir to the A&P supermarket fortune and art collector, his first venture into criticism. Tom Wolfe wrote that Hartford had “the most flagrantly unfashionable taste anybody in New York has ever heard of.”
Price: $75.00