PICASSO, PABLO. 1881-1973.
ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. 4to. Illustrated by Pablo Picasso including 6 original etchings. Edited by Gilbert Seldes. Original pictorial boards, glassine jacket, board chemise and slipcase. Wear to edges of slipcase and a small piece detached (but present), chemise spine panel sunned, light wear to glassine, bookseller's ticket to lower pastedown, volume fine.
LIMITED EDITION, signed by the artist on the colophon, no 718 of 1500 copies. "The only American publication with original Picasso etchings, which are among his most important in the classical style" (The Artist and the Book 226). Cramer 57; LEC 52.
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