PICASSO ART BOOKS FOR SALE
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Here's a short list of our art books on Pablo Picasso:
1. Two French Masters of Contemporary Art: MATISSE/PICASSO. Book One by Jean
Cassou & Two by Jaime Sabartes. Unpaged. Illustrated with 48 color plates
& 22 monochrome drawings. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. Paris: Braun &
Cie, no date (c.1950s). Good condition in chipped jacket. $30.00.
2. PABLO PICASSO DRAWINGS. Introduction by Maurice Jardot. 160 pgs. Color &
black & white reproductions throughout. White cloth. Quarto. NY: Abrams,
(1959). 1st Edition. Printed in Germany. Very good condition. $200.00.
3. Exhibition Catalog. PICASSO: THE AVIGNON PAINTINGS. 48 pgs. Color & black
& white reproductions. Stiff pictorial color wrappers. Quarto. NY: The
Pace Gallery, 1981. Near fine condition. $15.00.
4. Barr, Jr., Alfred H. PICASSO: FIFTY YEARS OF HIS ART. 314 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color & black & white illustrations. Grey cloth.
Quarto. NY: Museum of Modern Art, (1946). Ink name; good condition. $27.50.
5. PICASSO LINOLEUM CUTS: Bacchanals, Women, Bulls & Bullfighters.
Introduction by Wilhelm Boeck. Unpaged. Color plates throughout. Cloth in
slipcase. Folio. NY: Abrams, (1962). Near fine condition in lightly
waterstained & worn box. $375.00.
6. Boeck, Wilhelm & Jaime Sabartes. PICASSO. 524 pgs. 606 illustrations,
including 38 full-page tipped-in color plates. Pictorial cloth designed by
the artist in torn & taped-repaired dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams,
(1957). Inked name; otherwise, very good condition. $75.00.
7. Cooper, Douglas. LES DESJEUNERS. 36 pgs of text. 165 pgs of drawings &
paintings in color & black & white by Pablo Picasso. Pictorial buckram in
yellow pictorial slipcase. Folio. NY: Abrams, (1963). Near fine condition.
$250.00.
8. Dominguin, Louis Miguel. PABLO PICASSO: TOROS & TOREROS. 32 text pages.
Color & black & white plates & text drawings by Picasso throughout. Color
pictorial cloth in worn slipcase. Folio. Abrams: (1961). Spine lightly
soiled; otherwise, very good condition. $150.00.
9. Duncan, David Douglas. PICASSO'S PICASSOS. 271 pgs. Tipped-in color
plates. Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Harper, (1961). Near
fine condition. $100.00.
10. Duncan, David Douglas. THE SILENT STUDIO. 113 pgs. Photos throughout.
Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket. Quarto. (NY): Norton, (1976). 1st
U.S. Edition [so stated]. Very good condition. Photo essay on Picasso. $25.00.
11. Elgar, Frank & Robert Maillard. PICASSO. 315 pgs with index. Color & black
& white illustrations. Cloth in worn dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Praeger,
(1956). Good+ condition. $15.00.
12. Goll, Yvan. ELEGY OF IHPETONGA & MASKS OF ASHES. 4 transfer lithographs by
Pablo Picasso. Black cloth with paper cover label. Folio. NY: Noonday
Press, 1954. Number 46 of an edition limited to 64 copies, 55 numbered for
sale. Fabriano laid paper in different colors. Lithographs pulled by
Mourlot freres in Paris. One of only 2 books published in America with
original graphics by Picasso. Very good condition. Scarce. $1,500.00.
13. Janis, Harriet & Sidney. PICASSO: The Recent Years 1939-1946. 211 pgs with
index. Color & black & white full-page plates throughout. Cloth in chipped
dust jacket. Quarto. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1946. 1st Edition. Very
good condition. A comprehensive study of Picasso's career during the
years 1939-1946. It includes photographs of the actual subjects Picasso
was painting at the time. $25.00.
14. Kay, Helen. PICASSO'S WORLD OF CHILDREN. 240 pgs with index. 190
reproductions, including 28 in color. Cloth in chipped dust jacket.
Quarto. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, no date (c.1965). Very good condition.
$50.00.
15. Leymarie, Jean. PICASSO: THE ARTIST OF THE CENTURY. 310 pgs with
bibliography & index. 108 tipped-in color plates & 509 black & white
reproductions. Cloth in torn dust jacket. Folio. NY: Viking, (1972). Very
good condition. $150.00.
16. Mourlot, Fernand. PICASSO LITHOGRAPHS. 307 pgs. Color & black & white
illustrations throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. No Place: Boston
Book & Art, (1970). Printed in France. Fine condition. $120.00.
17. Parmelin, Helene. PICASSO: INTIMATE SECRETS OF THE STUDIO AT NOTRE DAME DE
VIE. 189 pgs. 166 illustrations, including 131 mounted color plates, 14
black & white drawings, 21 small vignettes in one or two colors. Cloth in
dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams, (1966). Near fine condition. $100.00.
18. Parmelin, Helene. PICASSO: WOMEN. Cannes & Mougins, 1954-1963. Preface by
Douglas Cooper. 199 pgs. Mounted color plates throughout + mounted
frontispiece portrait photo. Cloth in chipped dust jacket. Quarto. Paris &
Amsterdam: Editions Cercle D'Art & Harry Abrams, (1964). Near fine
condition. $150.00.
19. Penrose, Roland. THE SCULPTURE OF PICASSO. 231 pgs. Tipped-in color plate
in front & black & white photographic plates & drawings throughout. Cloth.
Quarto. NY: MOMA, (1967). Very good condition. $35.00.
20. [Picasso, Pablo]. PICASSO 347. 2 volumes in velvet-lined cloth folding
box. Illustrations throughout. Top edges gilt. Folio. NY: Random
House/Maecenas Press, (1970). 1st Edition [so stated]. Near fine
condition in shelf-worn box. $375.00.
21. PICASSO: LE GOUT DU BONHEUR - A Suite of Happy, Playful, & Erotic
Drawings. Introduction by Jean Marcenac. Portfolio of loose color & black
& white prints in cream cloth folder & box. Folio. NY: Abrams, (1970).
Printed in West Germany. Limited English language edition of 666 copies,
of a total edition of 1,998, the other copies being in French & German.
Near fine condition. The publisher states that this is the sole edition
that will ever be made of these hitherto unpublished drawings. $600.00.
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customer files for future acquisitions. Items included in this
catalog are not nearly our entire holdings in this subject, so
you may wish to ask us for a specific title that you want but
do not find listed therein.