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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/As New & Bright. 1954 Vintage Fist Edition, First Thus. Bi-color boards/VG w/light edge wear & discoloration to upper front edge w/slight lean to spine. DJ/None. Frontispiece: Goya, Colossus. Collection of prints & drawings of modern times with brief comments beginning with the ancestors of Modern Art. Selected, with explanations, by art historian Paul Joseph Sachs (1878 - 1965) who was an associate director of the Fogg Art Museum. 261 pgs in 10 chapters: I, (A) David & the Great Moderns of the Past, (B), Manet & the Impressionists; II, Cezanne & Post-Impressionism; III, The School of Paris, Matisse & the Fauves; IV, Cubism, Surrealism, Other Movements; V, Expressionism & Abstract Art in Northern Europe; VI, Italy; VII, England; VIII, Mexico; IX, United States; and X, Technical Processes. Strong copy despite flaws.…