first edition Stiff Boards
1948 · Paris
by Paris. Verve [Vol. 5 Nos. 19/20, April 1948]
Paris: Verve, 1948. First edition. Stiff Boards. Orig. colored wrappers over stiff boards. Picasso, Pablo. Unpaginated. 35 x 27 cm. Dedicated to Picasso and his work at Antibes. Abundantly illustrated: eighteen tipped-in full-color plates and 21 black and white plates. Text in French. 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. Remnants of two small cello stains on title page, nick to backstrip head. Interior contents clean and fresh.
(Inventory #: 22187)