Instants Et Visages De Paris

Paris: Andre Suaret, 1951. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. portfolio cover a color lithograph with original glassine, contents loose as issued laid-in. Fine in Very good beige cloth folding box bumped at upper corner. Vertes, Mardel. 155 pages in text. Folio, 39 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 178 of 250 signed by Vertes and Bauer. With a full page drawing of Jacqueline Simon inscribed to Jacqueline and Pierre Simon signed by Vertes, dated 1960, New York. The numerous black and white lithographs some double-paged were printed by Freres Mourlot on Grand Velin d'Arches in French. Laid-in a brochure -- (French text) "Documents; Marcel Vertes, Les Cahiers D'Art, Numero 27, 1956," listing works by him. All contents clean and bright.