Le Cirque.

2 vols. Folio. (450 x 325 mm). Leaf with copy number verso, half-title, original colour etching by Vertès as frontispiece and title with vignette by Vertès, Gomez de la Serna's text illustrated with 4 further original colour etchings by Marcel Vertès and with 35 lithograph vignette illustrations in the text, final leaf with justification; text leaves all with double rules in blue. Loose as issued in original publisher's glossy blue paper wrappers with printed titles and vignette in gilt to covers and portfolio. Vertes' 'Le Cirque' with additional suites. From the edition limited to 103 copies, with this one of 4 examples reserved for the Librairie Flammarion (D). This copy includes the following sets of the prints: 1. 5 prints in colour, as published. 2. Suite of 5 prints in colour printed on Japon, with each print signed in pencil. 3. Suite of 5 prints printed in black, with remarques, printed on vélin de Hollande. 4. Suite of 5 prints printed in black printed on vélin de Hollande.