La Chèvre-Feuille. Avec six gravures de Pablo Picasso (Association copy of Rothschild)
Robert-J. Godet éditeur, 1943. Number 23 of 25 such copies. Paperback. Thick wrapped cardstock glued covers, with printed lettering in black and green. Unpaginated (38 pp) with the 6 zincographs bound in, and then containing, in a separate folder, a suite of 3 copies (each in a different color) of the 6 bound zincograph plates from the book. LACKS THE BLACK AND WHITE ETCHING, but contains a custom-designed and signed presentation collage by Georges Hugnet to Nannette and Herbert Rothschild on the half-title, with painted design and applied materials, dated April 9, 1956. Bound book is VG+ with expected age-toning to the solid covers. Accompanying suite is as good as can be hoped for, with the thin paper printed wraps broken at the spine and the 18 prints (most with acidic sheets between) that are printed on low-quality acidic paper solid, clean (with a noted printing smudge on one about 1/10 an inch in size) and undamaged but wanting some conservation or de-acidification. Again, in case you have not noted otherwise, THE BLACK AND WHITE SIGNED ETCHING is lacking, but the limitation page is signed by both Hugnet and Picasso and there is a unique collage by Hugnet to noted collectors on the half-title. Item #208661
First edition printed in 525 numbered copies: 25 on Arches vellum signed by the author and illustrator. This is one of the first 25 copies on Arches vellum, signed by the author and the painter with the set of three engraving colors (red, ochre and blue-green) in the separate suite and 1 original etching by Pablo Picasso (SIGNED ETCHING IS NOT PRESENT IN THIS COPY). The justification indicates: "the illustrations were etched by Pablo Picasso in order to be printed in the text through common typographic means. The etching, meant only for the first prints, is one of six illustrations printed in intaglio on Roger Lacouriere's printing press." An additional 500 regular copies (with no suite and no etching) on Lafuma, plus VI author's copies on arches and III nominatives on bristol. The request to insert by Paul Eluard is entitled "Pour Georges Hugnet" (1 p.) and is present as called for. Also contains some other laid-in items, including a dated 1956 photograph of Hugnet, along with a lithographed invitation to an exhibition of graphics by Hugnet (at Galerie Furstenberg) dated 1954 (contains a colored illustration on the right inside panel), and a printed belly-band of unknown relation to the artist or publication.
OCLC: 459461492
Price: $9,500.00