[Rarebooks] FS: LYSISTRATA Illustrated with 6 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS printed by hand and SIGNED by Picasso

[Charles Agvent]

We have recently uploaded to our website a collection of the first 118 
Limited Editions Club books (all the titles in the first 11 series are 
in the collection), many of them being the finest copies we have ever 
handled.  All are numbered 509 and were kept intact by the original 
owners until we purchased them this summer.  Below is a link that will 
take you directly to the collection along with the more than 1000 other 
LEC titles we are offering for sale.  You may order directly from our 
site or by emailing or calling us.

http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/resort/recent/topic1%2Ctopic2%2Ctopic3%2Ctopic4%2Ctopic5/Limited%20Editions%20Club.html?id=pAquTJKY&mv_pc=1001


(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 30 sepia-tinted lithographs after drawings and 6 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 slight 
bump to the top of the spine at the front. The backstrip of the chemise 
is sunned, as often the case, and the slipcase has slight wear at the 
top of the back edge. A beautiful, close to Fine copy in like chemise 
and slipcase. (#017567)        $7,500.00

http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/017567.html?id=BdrInPIW&mv_pc=285

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