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Hardcover. Bright yellow/red/blue boards with black lettering; 136 unnumbered pages; 114 large bw illustrations. 12 unnumbered page booklet inserted listing "captions" (duplicate of what's in rear of book). "This book with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Joan Miró, is a selection of 114 photographs . taken from 1950 to 1955. The French edition by Verve (Les Européens) and the American edition by Simon and Schuster (The Europeans) were conceived and composed by Tériade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. The engraving and printing is the work of the masters [sic] printers Draeger frères of Paris. It was completed the 1st August 1955"--Page [2]. "The Europeans: captions": 12 unnumbered pages inserted. Duplicate of captions listed at end. Good+ (backstrip is detached but present. Light wear to boards overall. Pages have light age toning but text and illustrations are otherwise very clean and clear.) Backstrip has a library call label at the base, no other library markings, tight copy.
Published by 4 Rue Ferou December 1937, Paris, 1937
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Fernand Leger, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, Francisco Bores (illustrator). First Edition. Contains four original lithographs by Leger, Miro, Rattner, and Bores. Photographs printed as heliogravures. Artists included : Brassai, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erwin Blumenfeld, Picasso, Louis Guichard, Henri Matisse, and more. Writers include: Andre Gide, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Rene Huyghe, Andre Malraux, & Vollard. Stiff paper wraps with Esquire-Coronet gold seal on title page. Minor wear to head and tail with slight staining to cover edge (see image). No previous owners' names or other defacements. 10.5 x 14 in.
Published by 4 Rue Ferou, Paris, 1938
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Rattner, Paul Klee (illustrator). First Edition. Stiff pictorial wraps. Four original lithographs by Chagall, Miro, Rattner, and Klee present in good condition. Multiple heliogravures in color with gold as well as in black and white. Texts by Rabindranath Tagore, Henri Michaux, Elisabeth de Gramont, Mardrus, Bataille and additional others. Includes Hindu and Indian paintings, Persian, Hindu, and Chinese photography, photographs by Rogi Andre of Pierre Bonnard, and lithographs of the Indian Pantheon, and many others. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. 10.5 x 14 in.
Published by Verve, Paris, 1938
Seller: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Miró, Chagall, Rattner, and Klee (illustrator). First U. S. Edition. Complete issue of the French art magazine, Verve for October-December 1938. Flexible Boards. Folio. In the original box. Includes original lithographs by Miró, Chagall, Rattner, and Klee. The magazine is in near fine condition--the 4 original lithographs are in superb condition. All has been protected in the original box, which is in about very good condition. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Magazine.
Published by Paris: Editions de la revue Verve, 1952
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 4to. Original pictorial boards. 26.5 x 35.5 cm. (10½ x 14"). French edition.153, [1] p. With 27 lithographs, many in color, 5 of them double-page; plus numerous reproductions of drawings, paintings, photographs, miniatures, etc.;boards with color illustration by Georges Braque on front cover.Major double-issue of Verve, 27 lithographs by or after Georges Braque (1); Henri Matisse (3, 1 of them double-page); Henri Laurens (2); Alberto Giacometti (2); André Masson (3, 1 of them double-page); Fernand Léger (3, 1 of them double-page); Joan Miro (3, 1 of them double-page); Borès (2); Gromaire (1); and Marc Chagall (7, 1 of them double-page). The lithographs printed by Mourlot.