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    Printed Books and Manuscripts

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    9 December 1998

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    • PICASSO, Pablo, illustrator. A
    Lot 45

    PICASSO, Pablo, illustrator. ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. Translated and with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934.

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    USD 3,680

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    USD 2,500 - USD 3,500

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    PICASSO, Pablo, illustrator. ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. Translated and with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934.

    4o (292 x 234 mm). 6 etched plates, 30 lithographed vignettes printed in sanguine after drawings by Picasso. Publisher's pictorial boards boards, glassine wrappers (frayed at edges); original board chemise and slipcase (slipcase repaired).

    LIMITED EDITION, number 1187 of 1500 copies signed by Picasso. "The only American publication with original Picasso etchings, which are among his most important in the classical style"--The Artist and the Book, 226; Rauch 56.

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