[Rarebooks] FS: Lysistrata Signed by Pablo Picasso with 6 Original Etchings

[Charles Agvent]

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(PICASSO,  Pablo)  ARISTOPHANES.  LYSISTRATA.  New  York:  Limited
Editions  Club  1934.  Tall thin quarto (9-1/2" x  11-3/4")  bound  in
pattern  paper  boards  in  three   colors  designed  after  Picasso's
drawings.  Introduction and translation by Gilbert Seldes. Illustrated
by  Pablo  Picasso  including thirty  sepia-tinted  lithographs  after
drawings  and  SIX  ORIGINAL ETCHINGS printed by hand. Copy  #1045  of
1500  SIGNED in pencil by the artist on the colophon page. ARTIST  AND
THE  BOOK  226: "the only American publication with  original  Picasso
etchings,  which are among his most important in the classical style."
Covers  are  very bright with a small and barely visible  closed  skin
tear  at the top of the spine; small, tasteful bookplate on the  front
pastedown.  The backstrip of the chemise, which has minor repairs,  is
sunned,  and  the slipcase has short splits at the opening at the  top
and  bottom.  Beautiful  copy  in  Near  Fine  chemise  and  slipcase.
                                                               $7500.00
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