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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1996. Number 64 of a imited edition of 300, signed by the artist. Text in both English and the original French, illustrated with three watercolor woodblock prints by Cartier-Bresson, all printed on handmade paper. Natural linen binding with brick red goatskin spine, natural linen clamshell box lined in color matched ultrasuede. Fine condition in fine box. Pristine. Book was obtained from the original owner who purchased it directly from the Limited Editions Club and includes the LEC letter belonging to this title.. Signed by the Artist. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine Clamshell Box. Oblong Folio.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1996. Limited Edition (300 copies). Hardcover. Fine. 16" x 13. Henri Cartier-Bresson. Signed by the artist. LIMITED EDITION #23 of 300. Signed by the artist. English and French text. Quarter-bound dark tan leather on beige cloth boards, titled in gold on the spine. Features beautiful swirling watercolors by Cartier-Bresson. The three woodblock prints, including frontispiece, were achieved by Keiji Shinohara, using as many as thirty blocks to capture the color variations of the original paintings. They are printed on imported hand-milled Japanese paper. The text was hand-set by Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari and printed on roughly uncut, handmade Japanese paper called Tosa Hanga. The French text is interlined (inserted after) each line of English, using 24-point Perpetua type for the English and 14-point Gill Sans Light for the French. No pagination. Laid inside a lined clamshell box, covered in beige cloth, with a dark tan leather label, titled in gold,… Read More

Limited Editions Club Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). A FIRST IN FINE SLIPCASE. Watercolor woodblock print by Henri Cartier-Bresson, oblong 12.75 x 15.25, leather spine, cloth, unpag, very nice in clamshell box. LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY CARTIER-BRESSON WITH NEWS LETTER.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1996. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Henri Cartier-Bresson, Artist . Signed by the artist. First Edition. Number 87 of 300 copies. Signed by the artsit, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Leather spine with fabric cloth. Watercolor woodblock prints. Oblong. 12.75 x 15.25 inches. Not paginated. Clamshell case in fine condition. Newsletter present and laid in. Full refund if not satisfied.

A forerunner of the surrealists, Arthur Rimbaud wrote every one of his extant poems before he was twenty years old, including the "Sonnet des voyelles" ("Vowels"), here presented in French and with the English translation by Wallace Fowlie on alternating lines. The poet has assigned colors to the vowels - A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green. "The Star Wept"-a quatrain which further explores color symbolism -is appended to "Vowels" to complete this edition. Henri Cartier-Bresson, who is as famous for his paintings as for his photographs, has created three swirling watercolors which further explore the evocative power of colors.Three watercolor woodblock prints by Henri Cartier-Bresson.Edition limited to 300 numbered copies.Each signed by Henri Cartier-Bresson.Cartier-Bresson's three watercolors have been translated into multicolor wood blocks by Keiji Shinohara. Each required the cutting of from twenty three to thirty separate blocks-one for each color. The beautiful textured paper was made by… Read More