Pretextes

: Aux depens d'un Groupe d'Amateurs, 1951.
First Edition.

33cm x 26cm. 83, [1] pages, 10 plates. Lettered wrappers. With an additional suite of 22 plates and 2 of the original printing plates. Housed together in a folder with paper label, slipcase.

A posthumous tribute, organised by friends of the artist and published at their expense, with text by Robert Margerit and an avant-propos by Andre Billy and Pierre Mac Orlan. Copy A of 5 lettered copies on Japon Imperial reserved for friends of the artist, signed by Margerit and enriched with 5 original drawings by Lobel-Riche including a study for the first plate, a second suite of the plates in two states, with an additional plate also in two states, with remarques, as well as two of the original plates used to illustrate the work (the second and tenth plates).

Minor soiling to wrappers upper panel near spine tail corner. One of the original printing plates with some tarnishing. The slipcase edges rubbed, with one joint splitting but still intact. Very Good Condition.

AU$5,000