Gavilla de Fábulas sin Amor with Illustrations by Picasso. First limited edition. Signed by Cela.
réf. 51-5761Palma de Mallorca: Las Ediciones de los Papeles de son Armadans 1962. Folio. 25 x 35cm. Original burlap binding.158pp. plus index limitation statement and colophon. Illustrated with reproductions of 32 Picasso pastel drawings. On Guarro paper with Picasso-designed "sun" and "sheaf" watermarks. Text in Spanish.Camilo José Cela Spanish 1916-2002 was a poet novelist member of the Royal Spanish Academy and Royal Senator in the Spanish parliament. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1989. This book a collection of fables presents a collaboration between Cela and his friend Picasso.Light wear to boards with rubbed corners; light wear and toning to page edges occasional minor mark light foxing along top edge; a near fine copy.A collection of fables by the Spanish writer who won the Nobel Prize in 1989 the Cervantes Prize the Premio Planeta etc. Published in Palma de Mallorca in an edition of 2135 copies with 32 color drawings by Picasso. Of these 2000 were numbered 1-2000: this copy is numbered 417 and signed by the author. Bound in straw-coloured roughly woven hessian that was specially made for this edition. Printed on ‘papel Picasso’ – used here for the first time – made with double watermarks a sun and a sheaf or a bunch of flowers loosely bound with a ribbon both designed by Picasso. Palma de Mallorca: Las Ediciones de los Papeles de son Armadans, 1962 hardcover
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