"I'm trying to make my photography automatic-  to use my camera as I would a typewriter- in time I shall attain this and still avoid the irrelevant, for which scientific instruments have such a strong penchant. I'm working for the truth- one is apt to get too much of it, or get it a bit exaggerated."

"I turned on the light; before my eyes an image began to form, not quite a simple silhouette of the objects as in a straight photograph, but distorted and refracted by the glass more or less in contact with the paper."

-Man Ray, on the production of his first rayograph

MAN RAY. Alphabet pour Adultes. Paris: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1970. Folio (12x15.5 inches), loose gatherings (as issued) in chemise and cloth clamshell box. With original rayograph laid in. Interior fine, dampstaining to clamshell box. $2000.

Limited edition, one of 150 copies (out of a total edition of 180), signed by Man Ray and illustrated with 37 lithographs and an additional signed rayograph enhanced by pochoir coloring mounted on board laid in.