Lot Details
Lot 278
ELUARD, PAUL. Objet des mots et des images. 17 poèmes de Paul Eluard...
Paris: Mourlot for "Opera", 1947. Copy 9 of 300 examples, signed by Eluard and the artist, Engel-Pak, slipcased with a second copy, an out-of-series proof, unsigned, but with an original drawing for the title drawn by Engel-Pak on thin paper and initialled (design not used), hand-lettered by Eluard, and with three additional sheets hand-lettered by Eluard for the title, the colophon, and a plate list (this last also unused). Housed in two chemises within a vellum-backed slipcase. 12 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches (32.5 x 23.5 cm); 16 sheets printed in color lithography; plus the additional material noted above in the second copy, which is printed on paper 1 cm taller than the published work. Near fine, likely a participant copy, possibly Eluard's; Together with VERDET, ANDRÉ. Pages D'Amour. Paris: Éditions "Raison d'être," 1951, copy 72 of 350 on Marais, inscribed to Paul Eluard by Verdet, November 1951. Original printed wrappers. 11 x 8 7/8 inches (28 x 22.5 cm); 76 pp., with 16 original lithographs by Françoise Gilot. Near fine in wrappers.
C Estate of Arthur Brandt
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