PICASSO Pablo. Suite of 180 drawings by Picasso. Paris: Editions de la revue Verve, [1954]. Large in-4, double issue of Verve 29-30, volume VIII, the magazine's most important issue devoted to Picasso. Illustrated with 164 black reproductions and 16 color lithographs, including the cover, title page and frontispiece, specially composed for the book. Introduction by Tériade, texts by Michel Leiris and Rebecca West. Full illustrated publisher's boards. (rubs to cover, especially to spine, one spine split, spine split partly recolored, some stains to last lithograph). Expert: Mr. Nicolas Asvisio.

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