Editions Cercle d'art

Second edition, with some parts in first edition, revised and corrected.
Publisher's full sand cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Rich iconography, handsome copy.
Autograph signature by Zao Wou-ki in black felt-tip pen on the endpaper.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with drawings by Jean Effel, beautiful color cover.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Jean Effel to Michel Lintzer enriched with a drawing representing an angel tenderly chewing a flower.

First edition.
Binding of the editor in full red cardboard, smooth back cleared, traces of discoloration in the margin of the second board.
Light bites without gravity on the shirt.
A work punctuated by Jean Effel's reflections, humorously treating the greatest masterpieces of painting and sculpture.
Signed autograph dedication of Jean Effel Louis Flamme enriched with a drawing of a butterfly that forages a flower.

First edition for which it was not drawn from large papers.
Binding in full beige canvas, smooth back.
Nice complete copy of his illustrated jacket.
Illustrated book of paintings by Ilex Beller.
Autograph dedication signed by Ilex Beller to Charles Dobzynski.

Linogravures
éditions du Cercle d’art & Albert Skira | Paris 1962
| 39 x 32.5 cm | publisher’s original binding | slipcase
First edition.
Publisher’s cream cloth Bradel binding,
complete with slipcase.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Binding in half hazelnut hazelnuts, back slightly cleared with four nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, ex-ibris glued on a contreplat.
Illustrated book of photographic reproductions of works by Gustave Courbet.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon Jacques Rech.

First edition.
Binding of the publisher in full cream canvas, smooth back, complete copy of his jacket.
Some marks of reading of the dedicatee in pencil of margins of certain leaflets.
Illustrated book reproductions of works by Antoni Tapies.
Autographed and signed autograph by Antoni Tapies to his friend Georges Raillard, who was director of the French Institute of Barcelona and great specialist of the work of Antoni Tapies and his wife Ailce: "To friends Raillard very friendly souvenir" enriched a small drawing of a heart pierced with an arrow.

First edition on current paper.
Binding of the publisher in full cream canvas, smooth back, first flat illustrated with a drawing by Jean Picart the Sweet.
Beautiful complete copy of its rhodoïd which includes a tear glued together with an adhesive piece and its flexible cardboard case.
Illustrated book reproductions of works by Jean Picart the Sweet.
Signed autograph of Jean Picart the Sweet to Gerald Pierrat.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy to the sculptor (Raymond Mason) on a business card glued on the page of fake title.

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 Serge Lifar (Sergey Mihailovitch Lifar, 1904-1986) for whom Picasso designed costumes and sets.
Discreet repairs to corners of leaf with drawing.
Added: the volume Céramiques from Pablo Picasso published by Albert Skira in 1948, including an autograph colorful letter from Pablo Picasso, signed and dated, to the same Sergueï which should have been topped by a drawing, cut out from the copy probably in order to be framed.
An exceptional copy with an original drawing signed by Pablo Picasso.
$ 18 500

first edition.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Fred Deux to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet: "... pilgrims to the way we make the sentences ..."
Book illustrated with reproductions of works of Fred Deux.
Texts by Fred Deux, Alain Jouffroy, Bernard Gheerbrant and Cécile Reims.
Pleasant copy.

first edition.
Binding of the editor in full sand canvas, smooth back, first shown a flat reproduction of work by Fernand Léger.
Signed autograph of Peter escargues enriched the autograph signing Albert N. Léger Michaut.
Bookplate designed by Jean Cocteau pasted on a contreplat.
Iconography.
Nice copy.

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.

First edition.
Publisher's full cream cloth binding, smooth spine, illustrated front board.
Text by Pierre Descargues, signed autograph inscription from the latter.
Iconography, handsome copy.