VERTÈS, Marcel. It's All Mental. - Lot 311

VERTÈS, Marcel. It's All Mental. New Yorkers through the lens of psychoanalysis. A charming album of drawings in its first edition, enhanced with a dedicatory inscription. New York, Tudor Publishing Company, 1948. Small folio size, publisher’s gray cloth-bound hardcover, color illustration mounted on the front cover. Unpaginated, 38 full-page black-and-white illustrations with captions opposite and one illustration in the text. In English. Cover partially sun-faded with water damage at the top of the spine and a small tear at the bottom. Margins very slightly browned. First edition of this album of drawings reproduced in black. Preface by American actress and writer Anita Loos (1888–1981). Limited edition of 3,500 copies; this one includes an autographed letter, dated 1952, addressed to another Hungarian-born individual, André Kostolany, an American financial expert. . Marcel Vertès (1895–1961), exiled to New York during World War II, humorously explores the theme of psychoanalysis, illustrating it with scenes captured in the streets of the Big Apple. In good condition.