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artist).- Pène du Bois (Guy) Edward Hopper from the Whitney Museum of American Art 'American Artists Series', inscribed presentation copy signed by Hopper and his wife on front free endpaper, 20 black & white plates, publisher's tipped-in slip, loosely inserted printed invitation to a Retrospective Exhibition of Hopper's works at the Whitney Museum of American Art, bookplate of dedicatee J. Owen Grundy on front pastedown, photographic magazine clipping depicting the author mounted onto page facing title, further newspaper clipping tipped onto rear free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, a fine copy, printed dust-jacket, rear inner flap detached, front inner flap splitting, spine darkened and partly missing, large chip from top edge of lower panel, age-toning, 4to, New York, 1931. *** An excellent association copy of the catalogue compiled by the American painter Guy Pène Du Bois (1884-1958), friend & contemporary of Hopper. The inscription from Edward Hopper to J. Owen Grundy (1912-85), official Jersey City historian and journalist/editor for Greenwich Village's The Villager, reads: "To J.Owen Grundy of The Villager who not only inspired but generously conducted the campaign that (we hope) will save No.3 for another century as an historic art center on Washington Square", signed by Edward & Jo Hopper and dated Mon. 17. 47. Number 3 Washington Square was home & studio for Hopper from 1913 until his death in 1967, and is now preserved as a museum, perhaps in part as a result of this particular campaign.