Picasso

Stein (Gertrude).   Eight colour plates and 63 other full-page illustrations Librarie Floury, Paris,  1938 First Edition    Rebound in brick-coloured rough cloth, wrappers preserved, with black leather lettering label stamped in gilt on spine, top edge gilt Upper cover damp-stained, otherwise a very nice copy  This edition, in French, precedes the first English-language edition (Batsford, 1938). Loosely inserted is an original snapshot photograph of Miss Stein, annotated on the verso in an unknown hand, identifying it as having been taken in the Luxembourg Gardens, c.1910. The photograph shows a smiling Miss Stein leaning on an ornamented balustrade. 

Price: £125