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Paris: E. Tériade, 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paris, E. Tériade, 1939. Large quarto, 140 pages with numerous illustrations, many in colour (complete with the original lithographs by Matisse and Derain, but - curiously - lacking pages 41 to 44: 'The Book of the Hunt by Gaston Phébus, Comte de Foix, Fifteenth Century. Twelve Hunting Scenes'). Flush-cut card covers (featuring a wrap-around design by Georges Rouault); spine a little rubbed, with a few horizontal cracks and short splits at each end of the front joint; stitching a little loose; trifling signs of use and age; a very good copy. The artistic component of this number includes three original lithographs by Henri Matisse (a double-page work, 'The Dance', with two individual 'figures of skaters' on the verso), as well as three drawings by him; seven small lithographs (on four pages) by André Derain; six full-page colour lithographs from 'Tacuinum Sanitatis' (a fourteenth century book of health); and photographs by Brassai and… Read More

Paris: E. Tériade, 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Paris, E. Tériade, 1938. Large quarto, 132 pages with numerous illustrations including original colour lithographs (details below); complete as called for. Flush-cut card covers (featuring a wrap-around design by Pierre Bonnard); spine slightly rubbed, creased and sunned; top edge lightly foxed; overall an excellent copy. Published in Paris in both French and English editions (with the texts translated by Robert Sage) under the directorship of E. Tériade (an ex-patriate Greek, Efstatios Eleftheriades), 'Verve' was 'devoted to artistic creation in all fields and in all forms'. 'That the illustrations may retain the import of the originals, "Verve" will utilize the technical methods best suited to each reproduction. It will call on the best specialists of heliogravure in colors and in black and white, as well as of typography, and will not disdain to employ the forgotten process of lithography. The luxuriousness of "Verve" will consist… Read More