Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Balzac, Honoré de. Le chef-d’oeuvre inconnu.

With drawings by Pablo Picasso. 87 pp. 8vo. Orig. illus. wrappers, uncut and unopened. – Genève, Albert Kundig, 1945.

„Petite collection Lybyrinthe“, 1. One of 100 numbered copies on pur chiffon paper. This one an uncut large paper copy. Picasso’s drawings were first executed as marginal sketches in an edition of the same work published by Ambroise Vollard in 1931. The illus. on the front cover shows a self portrait by Nicolas Poussin from about 1630. – Mint copy. – Best.-Nr. 24965