106 - Léna LECLERCQ. *La Rose est nue*. Etchings by Max Ernst. Paris, Jean Hugues, 1961. Folio, loose-leaf, hardcover with filled spine, slipcase, in the publisher’s blue cloth case.

Léna LECLERCQ. *La Rose est nue*. Etchings by Max Ernst. Paris, Jean Hugues, 1961. Folio, loose-leaf, hardcover with filled spine, slipcase, in the publisher’s blue cloth case. First edition: illustrated with 6 original full-page color etchings by Max Ernst. Limited edition of 300 copies. Collaborator’s copy on Arches vellum, signed by the poet and the painter, for Louis Barnier. Double autograph inscription on the half-title page: For Mr. Barnier, with my gratitude and best regards, Léna Leclercq [Three original drawings] Max Ernst. As director of Imprimerie Union, Louis Barnier was the driving force behind a considerable number of books by 20th-century painters—including this *Rose est nue*.