Gertrud and Otto Natzler Ceramics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968, HC, VG.

Donahue, Kenneth, et al. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968.

English, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 10 1/2" x  8", 16 + 80 pp. 

Light gray pictorial paper over board with brown cloth spine, featuring Otto Natzler's 1943 ceramic artwork "3819 bowl" to front, white lettering to front, white paper label with red lettering and decoration pasted to spine, 1/4" closed tears to front and back bottom tips, minor wear to bottom edge, some sunning to edges, light soiling and shelf wear to front and back panels, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. 16 + 80 pp., replete with black-and-white and color images. Includes Foreword by Kenneth Donahue, Preface by Rose A. Sperry, Introduction by Otto Natzler, four chapters, About Gertrud's Throwing and About Form, The Appreciation of a Pot: Form and Fire, About the Clay, About the Glazes, and Catalog of the Collection. From Introduction: "This book is intended primarily to be a complete catalog of the collection of Natzler Ceramics assembled over the years by Mrs. Leonard M. Sperry. The accompanying monograph contains part of an autobiography, relating to our earliest working period, as I believe that these years strongly affected our thinking and outlook."