Verve Editor (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. In poor condition. Pages 15-22 are detached. All of the lithographs are missing. One of the color plates is missing. All the illuminations are present. The binding is weak around page 87. The front inside cover has a pocket containing a 32 page booklet that is faded on the back cover. The booklet is an English translation of the main text, which is written entirely in French. Extensive shelf wear on bottom edge of cover. Spine is damaged. Corners worn. Cover lightly foxed and a little stained. Email us for further details. 153 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Wrappers Over Boards. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. np (82pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover by Pablo Picasso. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This combined nineteenth and twentieth number of Teriade's legendary artistic review "Verve" is a monograph devoted solely to the work of Pablo Picasso. Realized under the direction of Teriade, it features front and rear covers specially designed by the artist for the project with the master printers Draeger Freres creating the then-state of the art heliogravure images in black and white and tipped color plates. Included are texts by both Picasso and Jaime Sabartes as well as reproductions of paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, letters, and more. An internally most handsome example of this lovely and fragile item additionally BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A DRAWING of flowers by Picasso in blue crayon across the entire "Antipolis 1946" page. It's striking color lithographic covers shows some wear, soiling, creasing, and adhesive ghosting along with some discreet professional reinforcement of the spine on the verso. The drawing and signature have been examined and vetted for us by a noted gallerist specializing in the work of Picasso, and we fully guarantee this item's authenticity. Artist Monograph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Covers sunned and soiled and spine cover has perished, but inners are fine. All lithographs present. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Covers sunned and soiled and spine cover has perished, but inners are fine. All lithographs present. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Braque, Henri Matisse, Henri Laurens, Alberto Giacometti, Andre Masson, Fernand Leger, Bores, Juan Miro, Gromaire, Marc Chagall (illustrator). 1st Edition. Originally published in France as issues 27 & 28 of Verve. Text in French with English translation booklet by Serge Hughes in pocket affixed to front pastedown. All lithographs present. Lithographs by George Braque (2pp), Henri Matisse (4pp), Henri Laurens (2pp), Alberto Giacometti (2 pp), Andre Masson (4 pp), Fernand Leger (4 pp), Bores (2 pp), Juan Miro (4 pp), Gromaire (2 pp), and Marc Chagall (9 pp). (Note, the table of contents states that there are 8 pp of lithograph by Chagall; however, we count 9 pp.) Cover is a lithograph by Braque. Sunning to spine of cover; pages and lithographs in fine condition. First edition in English. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Braque, Henri Matisse, Henri Laurens, Alberto Giacometti, Andre Masson, Fernand Leger, Bores, Juan Miro, Gromaire, Marc Chagall (illustrator). 1st Edition. Originally published in France as issues 27 & 28 of Verve. Text in French with English translation booklet by Serge Hughes in pocket affixed to front pastedown. All lithographs present. Lithographs by George Braque (2pp), Henri Matisse (4pp), Henri Laurens (2pp), Alberto Giacometti (2 pp), Andre Masson (4 pp), Fernand Leger (4 pp), Bores (2 pp), Juan Miro (4 pp), Gromaire (2 pp), and Marc Chagall (9 pp). (Note, the table of contents states that there are 8 pp of lithograph by Chagall; however, we count 9 pp.) Cover is a lithograph by Braque. Sunning to spine of cover; pages and lithographs in fine condition. First edition in English. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. Small folio. 26 x 36cm. Front and back covers, designed by Georges Braque. Most pages of text and the gravures are present. Lacking the lithographs. Published as Verve 27 & 28 in French in 1952. Cover in fine condition.

Condition: Good. Small folio. 26 x 36cm. Front and back covers, designed by Georges Braque. Most pages of text and the gravures. are present. Lacking most of the lithographs. With the dust-jacket, with marginal losses. Published as Verve 27 & 28 in French in 1952. Lithograph by Giacometti present.

Condition: Good. Small folio. 26 x 36cm. Front and back covers, desgined by Georges Braque. Most pages of text and the gravures. asre present. Lacking most of the lithographs. Published as Verve 27 & 28 in French in 1952. Cover soiled with defective back-strip. Lithographs by Laurens, Masson, Gromaire, Borès, Giacometti are present.