[PICASSO]. LAPORTE (G.). LES CAVALIERS D'OMBRE. Preface by Jacques Audiberti. P., Foret, June 25, 1954 [for the 1st state of the text] - [Paris], Aux dépens d'un amateur [Bernard Klein], October 14, 1954. In-folio on ff. in cover illustrated with painted vignette, publisher's slipcase with reproduction of Picasso's signature in red, separate suite in cardboard folder. Scattered foxing to the text pages and to the suite folder. SECOND EDITION but FIRST ISSUE of 7 ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS BY PABLO PICASSO, hand-engraved on copperplate in intaglio by Georges Bétemps. 14 POEMS by Geneviève Laporte in two states, the first in an edition of 217 copies: one of 50 numbered on vélin du Marais. The second, limited to 84 copies plus a few H. C. copies on various papers: one of 36 numbered on Vélin Marais pur fil, including 2 SUITES of the engravings: one in sepia, on Marais;the other, a suite of the scratched engravings, printed on Chine, in double folio. "An amateur, enamored of the beauty of the illustration and the lyricism of Geneviève Laporte, who had provoked it, acquired 84 copies, with the ambition of presenting Pablo Picasso's engravings in a new edition, established to his taste. Typography and printing were entrusted to Pierre Bouchet. For this edition, only the hors-texte that adorned the previous one were used, and the text pages that had been kept as "souches justificatives" by the new publisher were attached to each copy of the present edition." There are no engravings in the main body of the book, and 2 of the 7 engravings in the sepia suite are MISSING (some rare foxing). The 7 engravings in the suite sur Chine are heavily foxed.