The Best of Art Young; With an Introduction by Heywood Broun

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1936. Hardcover. xix, 186p., b&w full-page plates from pp.23 through 181. Features a frontis photoportrait of the artist: informal in shirtsleeves & suspenders, with a long-distance expression. Hardbound first edition in 11x7.5 inch pinkish-grey cloth boards lettered black, lacks a jacket, both hinges broken badly but holding. Boards edgeworn with fray, spine sunned. Find the inked ownership of folksinger-activist Barbara Dane on front pastedown (and another signature facing on ffep). Plates have fared well, none are injured or molested, but casebinding is in fair-to-good-only condition. Text includes a 7-page retrospective (truncated) by Young himself. As a youth he studied at the Academie Julien in Paris - and dreamed of having "an art gallery on an 'estate' of my own somewhere near New York City (Inventory #: 332532)