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Les Jockeys Camouflés. Trois Poèmes par Monsieur Pierre Reverdy. Agrementés de cinq dessins inédits de Monsieur Henri Matisse
1918BB2711Paris: La Belle Édition 71 Rue des Saints-Pères 1918. Limited Edition. Wrappers. First Edition No. 221 of 300 copies on verge d’Arches of Matisse's first illustrated book. Square royal 8vo 247 x 224mm: 50pp with five plates one double-page from early drawings by the French Fauve illustrating three poems by Reverdy. Original wrappers printed in blue and black untrimmed. Wanting the unprinted glassine dust jacket. An excellent example of this rare survival many copies were destroyed at the author's request expertly respined to style several leaves with archival repairs to margins only lower right corner of front wrapper renewed but bright and fresh tightly bound and clean throughout. The Artist and the Book 195 "notable for its imaginative use of color in typography but see below and for the only appearance of Matisse's early drawing style as book illustration." Barr Matisse pp. 196 560 "sometimes considered Matisse's first illustrated book". Editions Albert Skira Anthologie du Livre Illustré par les Peintres et Sculpteurs 255. The first of two editions published in Paris in 1918 with text printed in green orange blue and black a typographical caprice that infuriated Reverdy who demanded that the publisher François Bernouard issue a second version printed only in in black which came out in a numbered edition of 105 copies with the imprint: Paul Birault pour l'auteur. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. La Belle Édition, 71, Rue des Saints-Pères unknown
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