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Saint-Pol-Roux. Braque, Georges. Août.

With 4 orig. etchings of which 1 in two colours as frontispiece and one in blue by Georges Braque. 41, (9) pp. Oblong 4to. Loose quires as issued in orig. wrappers and cloth box. – (Paris), Luis Broder, (1958).

„Collection écrits et gravures“, vol. VII. Edition originale. One of 140 numbered copies on vergé d’Auvergne, signed by Georges Braque. Collection of poems by the French Symbolist Saint-Paul-Roux (1861–1940), predecessor of the later French Surrealists. The poems were never published during the author’s lifetime. „A splendid study in texture and color“ (Garvey). – Vallier 135; The Artist and the Book 1860–1960, no. 41; Braque. Das graphische Werk (Niggli 1961), no. XXIV. – Fine copy, – Best.-Nr. 18727