AU PARVIS DE L'AVRIL

(Nice): Aux dépens des amateurs (Imprimeries Nouvelles Réunies), 1966. Near fine.. Signed limited first edition of these privately printed poems by artist, poet, and French Resistance fighter Verdet, illustrated with three fine prints by Jean Lurçat, issued in the year of the artist's death and dedicated to him by the poet. 8.5'' x 5''. Original printed wrappers, laid in to green leather folio with gilt-lettered spine, leaves loose as issued portfolio-style. Edition of 150 numbered copies printed on BFK de Rives paper, with one original etching and two prints by Lurçat printed by l'Atelier Baviera à Saint-Paul. This copy no. 52, signed by Verdet at colophon. Text in French. Leather folio spine lightly sunned. Very slight foxing.