Pablo PICASSO

Illustrated edition, frontispiece, of an original engraving by Pablo Picasso on a flyer, one of 1000 numbered copies.
Stained boards, an angular fold at the foot of the second board.
We enclose two reproductions of photographs of judo shots.
Our copy is enriched with an original drawing of Robert J. Godet representing a devil in judoka kimono surmounted by two intertwined katanas embellished with this autograph dated and signed: "Why does this young devil look so pitiful Because he feels that if he continues to work bent in two, he will never have the black belt, wishing him for it soon Robert J. Bucket Black Belt 18.11.50 ".

La Guerre et la Paix [War and Peace]
Éditions du Cercle d'art | Paris 1954
| 29.5 x 37.5 cm | publisher's binding
First edition.
Publisher's sand cloth, copy complete with its rhodoïd plastic jacket.
Text by Claude Roy, attached press cuttings.
Pleasant copy illustrated with reproductions of works, as well as 6 original color lithographs, by Pablo Picasso.
Autograph inscription, dated and signed by Pablo Picasso to Miss M. Schuir using four color pencils.

Picasso – Dessins [Drawings]
éditions des deux mondes | Paris 1950
| 13.5 x 19.5 cm | publisher’s binding
First edition.
Preface by Jean Bouret.
Publisher’s full cream binding, copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has some small angular missing pieces that have been skillfully and discretely filled.
Light foxing on the endpapers.
Work illustrated with 96 reproductions of works by Pablo Picasso.
Autograph inscription signed by Pablo Picasso to Madame Denizot on an endpaper.

First edition on current paper, it has been printed only 20 "pur-fil" paper in large papers.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of Jean Cocteau by Pablo Picasso.
A lack in the back of the head, paper dumps in heads and feet of the title page and the last guard affecting, the autograph on the title page, page of fake title tending to unplug .
Jean Cocteau signed autograph: "My dear friends, read this little book during which I often think of you so clean, so fresh, so beautiful, so classic, with all my heart, Jean."

Éditions Jeanne Bucher | Paris 1942 | 14 x 19.5 cm | original wrappers

Part first edition, one of 400 numbered copies on featherweight vellum.
Illustrated with 4 original engravings by Pablo Picasso.
Discreet restorations to the margin of the second board.
Beautiful copy.
Beautiful signed, handwritten presentation by Georges Hugnet to his close friend, Parisian bookseller and member of the resistance, Pierre Berger: «à mon ami Pierre Berger en souvenir de tout ce qui nous lie par la pluie et le beau temps. De tout coeur. Georges Hugnet. 1953.» («To my friend Pierre Berger in memory of everything that joins us through rain and...

(Francis POULENC & Georges AURIC & Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
& Jean COCTEAU & Paul CéZANNE & Auguste RENOIR et al.)
Double invitation program to a Groupe des Six concert and the second exhibition of the Jeune Peinture Française, Cézanne – Renoir from 17 June to 4 July 1920, Galerie Manzi-Joyant et Cie
Paris 1920 | 11.5 x 14.7 cm | one folded leaf
Rare first edition of the double invitation program to a “Groupe des Six” concert, held on 19 June 1920, and the second exhibition of the Jeune Peinture Française, from 17 June to 4 July 1920, at the Galerie Manzi-Joyant et Cie
This document combines the musical event (with works from Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey...

[“ART NèGRE” – PRIMITIVE ARTS] GUILLAUME Paul & MODIGLIANI Amedeo & PICASSO Pablo
1st Exhibition (from 19 March to 5 December 1916) Kisling, Matisse, Modigliani, Ortiz de Zarate, Picasso, Sculptures nègresVery rare original catalogue of the first French exhibition of “Art nègre” judged according to aesthetic, and not ethnographic, criteria.
After Debussy's concert, then the concert of Satie and Ravel, in April 1916, this first artistic exhibition of the Parisian workshop “Lyre et Palette” presented...

Le Manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on vellum Lafuma.
Beautiful copy with an intact cover.
With 38 original ink drawings by Pablo Picasso.

PICASSO Pablo & DUHAMEL Marcel
Le Carnet des carnets
Aux dépens d’un amateur, n. p., 1965, 7,5 x 10 cm, publisher’s binding, envelope and flexible plastic slipcover
Edition consisting in the facsimile, printed by Daniel Jacomet, of a book illustrated of drawing by Pablo Picasso, given to Marcel Duhamel and printed by the latter at 250 numbered copies, plus a few copies that were not for sale but were for the artist and his colleagues.
Publisher’s binding in full grey canvas, a beautiful copy completed with its illustrated envelope of reproductions of the drawing by Pablo Picasso and with its flexible plastic slipcover, lightly split at the top of the joint.

New edition partly original because revised and increased and for which it was not drawn of great papers.
Small marginal tears on the boards
Illustrated book of a portrait of the author by Pablo Picasso.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Eluard to his friends Madeleine and Jean Sarigny: "... in memory of the black and white years ..."

PICASSO Pablo
Linogravures [Linocuts]
With an original signed drawing
éditions Cercle d'art, Paris 1962, book: 39 x 32,5 cm,
drawing: 24,5 x 23 cm, publisher's cloth
with custom slipcase
First edition.
Publisher's Bradel beige cloth, with dust jacket (a little light spotting and rubbing).
With 45 linocuts by the artist.
An original drawing by Pablo Picasso in black ink of a faun's head, with an autograph inscription signed and dated by the artist to “Sergueï, son ami Picasso le 4.5.57” [Sergey, his friend Picasso], on a leaf laid down on the endpaper. It's very likely that the drawing was for the choreographer...

first edition, one of the author's copies marked with the initials JC,
First issue of the Collection of Tracts.
This work is decorated with a portrait and two monograms by Pablo Picasso, one representing a cock and the other a harlequin.
Precious autograph signed by Jean Cocteau to François Le Grix, dated March 1919, framing the portrait of the author by Pablo Picasso.
Beautiful full copy of the butterfly "the French language is a piano without pedals".

MAN RAY & PICASSO Pablo. Photographies 1920-1934 Paris
James Thrall Soby & Cahiers d'art, Hartford & Paris 1934, 25 x 31 cm, spiral binding
First edition, stated second on title.
With 104 photographs, portraits and rayographs by Man Ray, as well as a frontispiece portrait of Pablo Picasso.
Texts by André Breton, Paul Éluard, Rrose Sélavy, and Tristan Tzara.

Feu de joie
First edition of the author's first work, a numbered copy on vergé bouffant paper.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Colette Grünbaum.
Illustrated with a drawing by Pablo Picasso.
Small lack to head of lower cover, small lacks to some leaves due to the fragility of the paper at the margins.
Dedicatee's ex-libris to endpaper.

La Chèvre-Feuille
Robert J. Godet 1943 | 23 x 28 cm | original wrappers
First edition, with 6 original lithographs by Pablo Picasso, one of 500 numbered copies on Lafuma paper.
A good copy retaining its advertising band, as well as its advertising slip, written by Paul Eluard.

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on vélin, the only printing along with 50 alfa.
Illustrated, as frontispiece, with an original etching signed in the plate by Pablo Picasso.
Preface by Paul Eluard, collages by Valentine Penrose.
A slight trace of sunning and small tears to foot of the spine.

Edition, one of 1440 numbered copies on tinted Alfa paper.
Binding to bradel half chocolate brown morocco, flat spine cleared with a gold central jewel, golden tail date marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, preserved covers.
Precious autograph signed by Paul Eluard in Victoria Ocampo.
Illustrated book with a portrait of the author and four drawings by Pablo Picasso

Original edition on the current paper, false mention thirteenth edition.
Book illustrated a portrait of the author by Piblo Picasso dedicated to Dominique Eluard.
Signed autograph Dominique Eluard Peter Korn enriched signature of Pablo Picasso in red pencil.
Two small tears without gravity top and bottom of the back.

Original, one of 2050 numbered copies on offset printing with only 150 pure wireless Edition.
Signed autograph of the author Denise Decourdemanche (sister of Jacques Decour which was resistant under the name Daniel Decourdemanche) which is not named pais who wrote his name at the top of the first guard as an ex- libris: "It was in nineteen hundred and seventeen / and we keep the intelligence of our deliverance / Paul Eluard".
Illustrated book of 29 original lithographs by Pablo Picasso.
Two tiny tears in the back and head first course exmplaire nice.

Third printing of this exhibition catalogue held at the Grand & Petit Palais from November 1966 to February 1967.
Rich iconography.
Discreet ballpoint pen annotations at the head of the first endpaper, handsome copy.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Light crease marks of no consequence affecting the front cover, handsome copy.