Aristophanes New Version Seldes Gilbert (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Picasso, Pablo (illustrator). Small 4to hardcover with marble colored boards and a red spine, with red illustrations of soldiers along the bottom of the panels. A new version of the Greek comedy by Aristophanes done by Gilbert Seldes and includes illustrations by Pablo Picasso. The condition of the book is Very Good (little to no shelf wear; little to no interior damage). The condition of the slipcase is Very Good (black coloring slightly worn and aged; some light shelf wear at the top and tail of the open edge). 117pgs.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Pablo Picasso (illustrator). Limited Edition. Aristophanes. Lysistrata. A new version by Gilbert Seldes with an introduction by Mr. Seldes and illustrations by Pablo Picasso. New York: The Heritage Press, 1962. Quarto (11.25 × 8.5 in). Red cloth spine over tan marbled boards with line drawings by Picasso in red; gilt spine titles; black slipcase. A fine Heritage Press reissue of the famed Limited Editions Club 1934 Lysistrata, uniting Aristophanes- timeless antiwar comedy with Pablo Picasso's celebrated neoclassical line drawings. Gilbert Seldes' translation and preface frame the Athenian dramatist's satire on gender and power with modern clarity and humor. Picasso's 1933 illustrations, executed in sanguine line, transform the bawdy and lyrical tone of the play into a suite of restrained yet sensuous classical images bridging antiquity and modernism. Condition: Near Fine in Very Good slipcase. Text and plates crisp and unmarked. Boards bright and clean with sharp gilt lettering and vivid red backstrip. Binding tight. Small bookplate ('Ex Libris Nancy Ann Helfer') to front pastedown. Slipcase sturdy with light edge rubbing and shelfwear. A particularly well-preserved example of this iconic Picasso-Heritage Press collaboration. Copyright 1934 by The Limited Editions Club; copyright renewed 1962 by The George Macy Companies, Inc.; play copyright 1930 by Gilbert Seldes. First Heritage Press edition (1962), reproducing the 1934 Limited Editions Club issue. No subsequent printings noted. Printed in red and black on fine cream laid stock; bound by The Heritage Bindery in full cloth with printed paper sides. Illustrated throughout with Picasso's line drawings reproduced from the original copperplates. This Heritage Press edition has been printed in a format faithful to the 1934 Limited Editions Club original. The text is set in Monotype Garamond and printed in two colors on a smooth, opaque stock selected for clarity of both letterpress and line illustration. The binding was designed under the supervision of The George Macy Companies. The illustrations by Pablo Picasso were reproduced from the original copperplate etchings under license from the Limited Editions Club. The book was manufactured and bound in the United States.