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1964278410Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret 1964. First. paperback. fine. Picasso. Illustrated with two original b/w lithographs which are the frontispiece and the double-spread wrappers. Over 140 additional plates throughout some in color or tinted. 152 pages. 4to original printed wrappers protected with glassine. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret 1964. Text in French. A fine fresh copy.<br/><br/> The second volume of the catalogue raisonne of Picasso's lithographs.<br/><br/> Andre Sauret unknown books
4492The image is cropped to show creases in corners and within image. Image measures 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Overall condition is fair. unknown books
51163Small unpaginated circa 20 pp. volume of poetry featuring a frontispiece engraving by Pablo Picasso opposite the title page. Clean copy. 8vo. Original printed wrpps. Very minor soiling to edges of covers. Paris G.L.M. 1937. Limited edition of 275 copies this being one of only 25 copies on Holland paper. Paul Dermée was a Belgian writer poet and literary critic discovered by Tristan Tzara. He was acquainted with Picasso Juan Gris and Sonia and Robert Delaunay and his wife Céline Arnauld was an active participant in the Paris Dada movement. Dermée was also director of the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau. unknown books
196017111103Cannes France: Devaye Imprimeurs 1960. Broadside. Near fine. Picasso Pablo. Broadside 22" x 17 3/8" printed in color. An exhibition poster from the Galerie De Cannes text letterpress and featuring a reproduction of the lithographic L'Atelier by Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 painted in Cannes in 1956; likely one of the lithographs on display at the exhibit. An uncommon poster for an exhibition of four of the major artists of the twentieth-century. <br/><br/>This exhibition would have taken place in the last decade of these artist's lives after they'd achieved a great deal of fame. Georges Braque 1882-1963 in particular was a close companion of Picasso and their work in its earlier years greatly inspired and informed each other; this would have been one of the last time Braque and Picasso exhibited together during Braque's lifetime.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: The poster is in near fine condition with no pin holes other than a few light creases and very short minor tears at the edges none more than about a quarter-inch in length and a few very light areas of soil on the verso this is a near fine example. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Devaye Imprimeurs unknown books
1964224763Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret 1964. First. paperback. fine/near fine. Picasso. Illustrated with two original b/w lithographs which are the frontispiece and the double-spread wrappers. Over 140 additional plates throughout some in color or tinted. 152 pages. 4to original printed wrappers just a bit bumped at upper front corner protected with glassine. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret 1964. Text in French. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> The second volume of the catalogue raisonne of Picasso's lithographs.<br/><br/> Andre Sauret unknown books
1936PPMA001New York & Los Angeles: Merle Armitage 1936 Illustrated with a lithograph by Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano executed by Lynton R. Kistler signed in pencil by Napolitano. Limited edition this being number 65 of 112 numbered copies. Publisher's yellow cloth title stamped in black and brown to upper cover. Very good overall covers slightly bowed light soiling to cloth light wear to spine tips residue from sticker on spine light soiling to front endpapers interior otherwise clean and bright including the lithograph tissue guard still present binding slightly shaken. Overall a pleasing copy of a scarce book with the signed lithograph in fine condition. These two essays by Picasso were first published separately in The New York Times in 1923 and 1930. They appear here with an additional statement by its publisher Merle Armitage. Armitage started his career in the arts as a set designer in New York City and became a tour manager and theatre producer in Los Angeles. He authored over 100 books about artists and musicians and was an art collector befriending many artists including Picasso Kandinsky Klee and Chagall. After meeting artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano Armitage wrote a book about his Modernist style. Napolitano studied many different forms of art including painting ceramics and architectural design and he executed many architectural murals for the WPA. He illustrated several books written by Armitage and through their collaboration Napolitano became involved in set and costume design notably working on The King and I. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York & Los Angeles: Merle Armitage hardcover books
197419059ENew York: Grosset & Dunlap 1974. First Edition First Printing. From the library of the great film director Billy Wilder signed and inscribed by the author / photographer David Douglas Duncan to Billy Wilder and his wife at the behest of their mutual friends Anne & Kirk Douglas. Inscribed: “For Audrey and Billy Wilder Merry Christmas from Anne and Kirk and David Douglas Duncan.†Kirk Douglas was the star of Billy Wilder’s great 1951 masterwork film Ace In the Hole. Oversized art coffee table art book. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket wtiha a small tear at the top rear corner and some very minot wear. A book of photographs by David Douglas Duncan comprising the artist Pablo Picasso’s private collection of his own work. With many candid images of Picasso his family home friends dogs and more. Billy Wilder’s legendary status in Hollywood as a director screenwriter and producer includes such classic films as Ninotchka Sunset Boulevard Double Indemnity The Lost Weekend Stalag 17 Some Like It Hot The Seven Year Itch The Apartment and The Fortune Cookie. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
198618428Boston: Atlantic Monthly 1986. First edition. leather_bound. Full orange morocco. Fine in near fine solander case of quarter orange morocco with two spine inlays in gray morocco spine lightly sunned and beige basket weave cloth. 349 pages. 30 1/2 x 23 1/2 cm. Edited by Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher. Bound by the Harcourt Bindery with their ticket at backcover paste-down in full orange morocco decorated in blind in a Picasso motif a line drawing of male/female faces intertwined with this design motif replicated on the cover of the solander case. Copiously illustrated in black and white and color including samples from each of 175 different sketchbooks. Features essays by Claude Picasso Robert Rosenblum Sam Hunter Francoise Gilot and others. The monograph presents for the first time the personal sketchbooks of Picasso and contains a catalogue raisonne which fully describes all 175 extant sketchbooks. This book was produced in conjunction with an accompanying exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York in 1986. Atlantic Monthly unknown books
1965175627Paris: Les Ateliers de Daniel Jacomet 1965. Softcover. VG plexiglass case is torn on one side. Tan illustrated canvas notebook measuring 4x3 in unpaginated in color illustrated cardboard envelope measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in all in printed plexiglass case with black and red lettering. "The Notebook of Notebooks" Facsimile of an illustrated Picasso notebook given to Marcel Duhamel and drawn by the latter in 250 copies plus a few non-commercial copies for the artist and the collaborators. It is kept in the strong paper enveloped printed in color from the original envelope decorated by Picasso for Marcel Duhamel the founder and director of the Serie Noire and a friend of Prevert. Without the printed booklet of Marcel Duhamel's presentation text which is often missing. Envelope addressed to "Señor Don Marcel Duhamel Antibes - A.M. On cover: Pour Duhamel Marcel 18.1.65 This copy is number 20 out of the 250 copies printed. Les Ateliers de Daniel Jacomet paperback books
197121655Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili 1971. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong 24mo. Red cloth with gilt-stamped "Album" title to front and facsimile inkstains to rear. With accompanying perfect-bound booklet in glassine-covered jacket. Both housed in marble printed slipcase with title label to one side. Near fine overall. Label on slipcase moderately rubbed. Books both very near fine. Unpaginated sketchbook facsimile and 68pp booklet. <br/><br/>A gorgeous and incredibly detailed facsimile reprint of the second of Picasso's earliest sketchbooks. With accompanying text written in both Spanish and English. From an edition of 300 copies. Editorial Gustavo Gili hardcover books
1961140941418New York: Harry N. Abrams 1961. First US Edition. First American edition. Publisher's pictorial white cloth in original slipcase. Near Fine with slightly toned spine hinge at front starting in slipcase with wear and fraying along edges toning. Lacking title band. Picasso on bullfighting. Harry N. Abrams unknown books
19647427Paris: Maeght 1964. Folio loose as issued in illustrated wrappers. Four original lithographs in color by Miro Tal-Coat Ubac and Pallut; one original black and white double-page litho by Picasso. One engraving l'eau-forte by Georges Braque after "Les trois oiseaux sur fond violet". With illustrated wrappers and eight other illustrations after Braque including etched frontispiece "Trois oiseaux sur fond violet"; plates by additional artists including Man Ray Marc Chagall and others. Some very light soiling to wrappers otherwise very good. Maeght unknown books
1948905Paris: Rene Drouin 1948. First Edition with more than 90 half-tone photographs of Picasso with his family working and with completed works. With an important commentary by noted author and friend of Picasso's Paul Eluard and an Introduction by another noted author and close friend Jaime Sabartes. Folio 3/4 blue morocco with marble pastepaper spine panelled author and title in gilt teg original pictorial wrappers of Picasso bound in. An important record of the master and his work. Rene Drouin unknown books
196121649Barcelona: Sala Gaspar 1961. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Picasso Pablo. 24 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm. Front cover is an original color lithograph. 72 black and white and tinted lithograph illustrations. Index provides size and format of each illustration. Introduction by J. Ainaud Director of Art at the Barcelona Museum.Text in Spanish. Interior clean and fresh slight ding to cover corners. Sala Gaspar unknown books
195646468New York: Harry N. Abrams 1956. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: Harry N. Abrams 1956. Introduction by Hans Bolliger translation by Norbert Guterman. Numerous b/w illustrations. xxii plates pp. Hardcover. Square 4to. Black cloth. Spine lettering and decorative device to front board stamped in white. Spine faded. Chip to head and closed tear to heel of publisherÕs mylar dustwrapper. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1948320147Paris: Verve 1948. First edition. 18 tipped-in full-colour plates and 21 black and white plates. Printed by Draeger frères. 47 1pp. Folio 35 x 27 cm. Printed pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. 18 tipped-in full-colour plates and 21 black and white plates. Printed by Draeger frères. 47 1pp. Folio 35 x 27 cm. VERVE p.182 ". one of the unique qualities of "Verve" Nos. 19/20: a unity of time and place that gives this form of presentation -- known in English as a `work in progress' its singular character. Verve unknown books
1971311098Berne: Kornfeld & Klipstein 1971. First editions. Illustrated. 310; 345pp. 2 vols. 4to. Cloth in fine djs. First editions. Illustrated. 310; 345pp. 2 vols. 4to. Kornfeld & Klipstein unknown books
1971WRCLIT65359Berne: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein 1971. Large quarto. Rough woven cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Picasso four hundred plus black & white plates of graphic print works both published and unpublished. Bookplate on front pastedown else about fine in near fine dust jacket with minor use at edges. First edition. The second volume of the four volume catalogue raisonné of Picasso's graphic works. Introductory text in French English and German descriptive text in French. Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein hardcover books
1925KC15849Prague 1925. Paperback. Good. Jind ich Honzl Odeon Praha 1925 184pp. 5.25 x 7.5. Front cover photomontage by týrský Jind ich & Toyen Marie ermínová with interior graphic design by Karel Teige. Illustrated with work by: Lissitzky Molnár Schlemmer Picasso Leger and many others. Very good original printed wrappers with some soiling and lightly worn edges; splits and light wear to the spine head/heel. Some pages loose but complete. CZECH AVANT-GARDE. Rare. <br/><br/> paperback books
197128082Barcelona: Ediroial Gustavo Gili S. A. 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two oblong books in hard slipcase. One of 300 copies. This slipcase houses two books: one clothbound is a facsimile of one of Picasso's earliest sketchbooks; the other softbound in delicate opaque wrapper contains text in Spanish and English. Both books in near fine condition. The softbound book has a couple of small cover stains. With two additional printed cards from the publisher laid in. Slipcase shows just mild handling wear. Ediroial Gustavo Gili, S. A. hardcover books
2011281372New York: Gagosian 2011. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Pable Picasso. Beautifully illustrated throughout in color and b&w with facsimile "flipbook". 300 pages 4to white cloth d.w. New York Gagosian Gallery 2011. First Edition. Published to accompany an exhibition. Fine.<br/><br/> Gagosian unknown books
2011179895New York: Gagosian Gallery 2011. Hardbound. As new in shrinkwrap. White cloth boards w/ black & emerald printing; color illustrated dust jacket with black and teal spine lettering 296 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. Pablo Picasso met Marie-Therese Walter in Paris in 1927 when she was 17 and he 45 and married to the Russian ballet dancer Olga Koklova whom he eventually left for the younger woman. This catalogue examines Picasso's endless fascination with his lover's character and form which led to some of the artist's most popular works. Contents include: Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter / John Richardson -- The Marie-Thérèse years: a frenzied diologue for the sleeping muse or the rebirth of Picasso's plastic laboratory / Diana Widmaier Picasso -- Plates -- The image of Picasso-sculptor in the 1930s / Elizabeth Cowling -- Lydia from the other side of the world-- / John Richardson. Gagosian Gallery unknown books
201136206New York: Gagosian Gallery 2011. Hardbound. VG. scuffs to covers; shelf-wear to lower cover edges & corners. crease to lower corner. tight binding. dustjacket has wear to upper spine edge. white cloth boards w/ black & emerald printing. 296 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations; small flip-book. illustrated dustjacket. Beautifully illustrated and designed. A nice copy. Gagosian Gallery unknown books
1956018304New York NY: Henry N. Abrams 1956. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First American edition. Folio. 22 pages of text xxii including an introduction by Bollinger followed by 100 black & white plates. Black hardcover cloth binding with minor to moderate sunning to the spine. The original printed glassine wrapper has several tears and chips. Lacks the slipcase. Translated by Norbert Guterman. The beautiful catalogue of Picasso's graphic work produced for the French publisher Ambrose Vollard. There are two small x's in ink in the list of illustrations. The text is otherwise clean and unmarked. First American edition. Henry N. Abrams Hardcover books
1948WRCLIT58237Paris: Éditions "Cahiers d'Art" 1948. XXIII:1. Large quarto. Original printed wrappers. Heavily illustrated with photographs. Crown of spine a bit frayed else fine in partial glassine and slipcase with printed label frayed at crown as well. An issue devoted to Picasso's works 1946-8 as well as reproductions of 446 of his ceramics with text by Picasso as well as Christian Zervos René Char et al. Éditions "Cahiers d'Art," unknown books
