[Calder, Alexander- Splendid Association Copy with Magnificent Pictorial Inscription to Kay Unger] Three Young Rats, And Other Rhymes

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. First Edition. First Edition. Large quarto. 12 1/2 x 10 inches. Publisher's original pictorial boards with tan buckram cloth spine. A wonderful ASSOCIATION COPY, PRESENTED TO KAY [UNGER] with his trademark embellished script taking up half of the front free fly: "Aux Kay, Baby,, / & Christmas Yves [with inserted "R"/ 1944 /de Sandy Calder [Calder's fond nickname]. Kay Unger, fashion designer, entrepreneur and philanthropist based in New York, inherited through her family a renowned collection of modernism, of which this copy owes its provenance, with those items never before until recently seen in public marketplace. (truncated) The collection was clearly informed by a love of modernism and an instinctive attraction to artists who shared a transatlantic dialogue between Paris and New York, such as Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, etc. Very good copy, foxing to prelims, corners bumped. Very scarce thus. (Inventory #: 6804)