Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. 149 pp. Illustrated with gravure photographs. 25.5 cm. Text in Finnish, with a summary in English. Publishers' beige cloth. Fine, without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author in pencil to the great boxing champion: "To Gene Tunney, from your great friend, Jussi Mantysen, Helsinki, 8.V.31." With an additional inscription in pencil by Mantysen in Finnish. A finely printed catalog of Mäntysen's animal sculptures, both natural and modernist in the style of Constantin Brâncu i. Very scarce. *OCLC* locates only one copy in Germany.

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