271 - Jean Arp. [Le] soleil recerclé. Paris, Louis Broder 1966. With 20 color woodcuts, mostly full-page, including one signed and numbered, three on the covers and slipcase, and seven vignettes on the front and title pages and within the text.

Jean Arp. [Le] soleil recerclé. Paris, Louis Broder 1966. With 20 color woodcuts, mostly full-page, including one signed and numbered, three on the covers and slipcase, and seven vignettes on the front and title pages and within the text. Call time: approx. 3:30 p.m. (schedule subject to change) One of the 40 special edition copies featuring an extra suite of 15 woodcuts on Japon nacré, all numbered and bearing the dry stamp “Jean Arp. Bois original”; the suite cover features the 20th woodcut (total edition of 185). - Edition note signed by the artist. - The magnificent five-color woodcut, signed and numbered, on Velin d’Auvergne with the “Arp” watermark; the text and the remaining woodcuts on “BFK Rives” vellum with the publisher’s watermark. A second print of the woodcut intended for the slipcase, on gray handmade paper, is included separately. - The book contains 17 poems by Jean Arp, most of which are published here for the first time. Arp worked on this artist’s book from 1962 to 1965. - Very rare with the suite. Arntz 250–269. - Arp-Hagenbach 377. - Monod 524 49.5 × 39.5 cm. 64, [12] pages, 3 woodcuts outside the pagination and 15 within the suite. - The glassine on the spines of the covers beneath “le soleil de la Nouvelle-Zélande” has almost completely disintegrated. - The sheet containing the inset signed woodcut, as well as the woodcut itself, is slightly foxed. - Ten pages of the suite are minimally foxed; two additional pages and the inner suite cover are somewhat more heavily affected. English description: Includes 20 color woodcuts, mostly full-page, one of which is signed and numbered, three on the covers and slipcase, and seven vignettes on the front and title pages and within the text. One of the 40 special edition copies featuring an additional suite of 15 woodcuts on Japon nacré, all numbered and bearing the dry stamp “Jean Arp. Bois original”; the suite cover features the 20th woodcut (total print run: 185). - Print run notation signed by the artist. - The magnificent five-color woodcut, signed and numbered, on Velin d’Auvergne with the “Arp” watermark; the text and the remaining woodcuts are on “BFK Rives” vellum with the publisher’s watermark. A second print of the woodcut intended for the slipcase, on gray handmade paper, is included separately. - The book contains 17 poems by Jean Arp, most of which are published here for the first time. Arp worked on this artist’s book from 1962 to 1965. - Very rare with the suite. The glassine on the spines of the chemises under “le soleil de la Nouvelle-Zélande” has almost completely disintegrated. - The sheet containing the inset, signed woodcut, and the woodcut itself are slightly foxed. - Ten pages of the suite are minimally foxed; two additional pages and the inner suite cover are somewhat more heavily affected.