Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original illustrated wrappers over stiff boards. Dust wrapper/jacket design by Pablo Picasso. 12 beautiful nude photographs by Lucien Clergue. With an opening poem for Clergue by Jean Cocteau. 37 plus 6 pages.
Seller: Martin Kaukas Books, Manchester, VT, U.S.A.
Eluard, Paul. Corps Memorable. Seghers, Paris, 1957.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ELUARD, PAUL. Corps Memorable, Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1957.Thin quarto, copy No. 709, pp. 35 plus 12 glossy halftone plates, plain boards quarter-bound in light brown wood, dust jacket with front panel image by Pablo Picasso, photos by Lucien Clergue, all text in French. Thirteen poems by Eluard illustrated with Clergue's photos of what may be the same female body, shown from different angles, always headless and in water. See Bertolotti, Books of Nudes, p. 147: "The book shows women looking like Juno, coming out of the waves of the sea as if they were symbolic forms of life."Condition of this book:Jacket bright with wear at corners, no tears, with original acetate overwrap.Leaves clean but a couple are loose, which is typical of this book; images fine. Size: Quarto. Text is in French. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is loose but fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; France; 1950s; French Language; Poetry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53319.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$438.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1 volume reliure cartonnée de l'éditeur, couverture rempliée, plat supérieur illustré par Pablo Picasso, 37 pages {1], avec 12 photographies en noir et blanc par Lucien Clergue, dont 2 sur double-page. Poème liminaire de Jean Cocteau. Première édition. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
Seller: Librairie Rouchaleou, MONTPELLIER, FR, France
ELUARD, Paul; Lucien Clergue; Picasso, Pablo. CORPS MEMORABLE. Pierre Seghers, Paris, 1957.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First printing of this notable photobook, with dust jacket design by Pablo Picasso. Includes twelve photographs by Lucien Clergue. With an opening dedicatory poem for Clergue by Jean Cocteau. "This book, with its distinctive cover by Picasso, was the first mainstream publication to show female pubic hair, allowable only because Clergue did not show the faces of his models, which gave rise to considerable controversy" (Parr & Badger I, 192f). Hardcover. 8vo. Boards in paper covers. Toning/soiling to upper and lower edges, with some scuffing and faint chipping to spine ends. Interior pages lightly toned towards edges, but clean and unmarked. Very good + in a very good jacket.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$564.42 + shipping
Description: 35 p., in-4, cartonné, avec jaquette transparente, couverture par Pablo Picasso, avec douze photographies par Lucien Clergue sur papier brilliant. 700 g
Seller: Antiquariat Im Seefeld / Ernst Jetzer, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In-4º menor.- 40 p.- Ilustrado con 12 fotografías b./n. de Lucien CLERGUE fuera de texto, dos de las cuales a doble página.- Cartoné de editor, con sobrecubierta ilustrada por Pablo PICASSO.- Primera edición.- Procedencia: Osvaldo Svanascini (firma autógrafa en la anteportada). 550
Seller: Victor Aizenman (SLAM / ILAB), Buenos Aires, Argentina
ELUARD, Paul; Jean COCTEAU & Pablo PICASSO.. Corps Mémorable.. Paris: Pierre Seghers, [1957]., 1957.
Price: US$721.50 + shipping
Description: 4to. pp. 37. French text. dust wrapper design by Pablo Picasso. 12 photographs by Lucien Cherque. boards. dw. (rubbed, corners and head & foot of spine bumped and worn, bit discoloured at head of spine, first 16 pages are loosely inserted). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada