[Rarebooks] FS: Paul Eluard, 1936: Samuel Beckett and Pablo Picasso

[Charles Agvent]

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ELUARD,  Paul  [BECKETT,  Samuel]. THORNS  OF  THUNDER.  SELECTED
POEMS.  WITH  A  DRAWING  BY PABLO  PICASSO.  London:  Europa  Press &
Stanley  Nott  [1936].  First Edition. Edited by  George  Reavey  with
translations  from the French by Samuel Beckett, Man Ray, and  others.
Frontispiece  portrait  of  the author by Pablo Picasso.  One  of  600
numbered  copies,  this  copy  unnumbered and likely  one  of  the  25
reserved  for  use of the author and publisher. The brown  dustwrapper
with  an  illustration  by Max Ernst on the cover is darkened  at  the
spine  and complete but for minor chipping at the top front panel  and
slightly  more  on  the  top  rear panel. Very Good  in  a  Very  Good
dustwrapper. Quite scarce.                                     $600.00

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