Natasha Staller
A Sum of Destructions: Picasso's Cultures & the Creation of Cubism.
Yale University Press, 2001. Author-signed first edition. 0300072422 xv/438 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately  9.25" x 11.5", is bound in black cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays minor wear and very faint small stain at bottom of spine. Very light foxing is visible at top edge of text block. Minor marking is visible at bottom edge of final fifteen pages of text. Volume is otherwise in excellent condition, with original drawing on title page above author's ornate inscription reading "To Louise / with very best wishes / Natasha Staller." Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear, with minor stain to verso.