Description: Paris 1957 1st edition. Seghers. Couverture par Pablo Picasso, Avec un poeme liminaire de Jean Cocteau et douze photographies par Lucien Clergue. 4to., 37pp., 12 Very fine stunning photo illustrations of nudes by Clergue. Complete. In original stiff card board with original printed color wraps by Picasso covered with original fitted clear glassine DJ (as issued. ) VG plus, very light wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Paris: Pierre Seghers
Date Published: (1962).
Description: Fine in a fine jacket (and possible original publisher's acetate). Clergue's scarcest trade publication. Second edition published in 1962. Tall octavo. First book by French photographer Lucien Clergue, with twelve of his trademark close-up images of wet nudes. Dust jacket for the book executed by Clergue's mentor, Pablo Picasso, who called Clergue "the Monet of the camera. " With text by poet Paul Eluard. A fine association copy, INSCRIBED by Clergue on a full page to photographer Arnold Crane ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pierre Seghers, Paris
Date Published: 1957
Description: Clergue, Lucien; Picasso, Pablo. Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wear at head of spine and a bit bumped, light soiling to Picasso illustrated cover. Pages starting to come loose from binding as is typical with this book, very light wear to a few page edges, and one small red mark to the rear of one of the photo plates, otherwise unmarked and clean internally. 12 photos (10 with the text, two page photo as frontis, and rear of jacket). Illustrator: Clergue, Lucien; ... read more
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