Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) - Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) - Lot 11

Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) - Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963) Picasso from 1916 to 1961. Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 1962. - In-folio, 37.3 x 27.3 cm: (4 ff. first blank), 113 pp. (11 ff. last two blanks), illustrated window cover. In sheets, filled cover, black basane spine folder and publisher's slipcase. First collective edition illustrated with 24 original black lithographs by Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973), printed by Fernand Mourlot, including one openwork lithograph on the cover, one as a frontispiece, seven as chapter headings, six culs-de-lampe, two on double pages and seven full-page lithographs. Edition of 255 copies plus a few copies reserved for the author, the artist and the contributors to the edition, signed by the author and the artist at the justification. This is one of 199 numbered on Rives pur chiffon à la forme (no. 76). Wear to jacket hinges. Small tear at base of cut-out eye on front cover.