Nat Tate. American Artist: 1928-1960

Square 8vo. Green cloth boards with purple lettering to spine. In fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. *** Pristine first printing of this William Boyd’s biography of the artist Nat Tate: ‘an abstract expressionist who destroyed ‘99%’ of his work and leapt to his death from the Staten Island ferry. His body was never found.’ The book turned out to be a hoax.