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Buy this book on-line HOCKNEY,DAVID**: : dessins & Gravures.[drawings & engravings.]FRANCE.PARIS.GALERIE CLAUDE BERNARD,,April 1975. ISBN No ISBN.
France,16mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued.Generally clean;one small,finger/grease(?) spot to upper bd of publisher's original,antique chain-laid,water-marked paper-covered,rose-pink boards,with the artist's name printed on a lighter pink onlay square in black ink,to the upper bd;top right-hand corner minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing and
spine/backstrip lightly sunned/faded.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and other corners,or spine/
backstrip.Top edge lightly dust-soiled and minimally
foxed/spotted;fore-edge brighter and cleaner, immaculate plain white eps,contents bright,tight and
near pristine - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Described hard but fairly and conservatively,in better condition than it reads,
with very few faults.16mo,11pp (india-paper),intro in French text by Marc Fumaroli - ''Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme'',+title-page,mixture of b/w+colour dessins (drawings),1-31pp [non-sequentially paginated,some pages with no pagination
to recto],b/w gravures (engravings),1-13pp [also non-sequentially paginated,but both sides of pages used] and an index of listed works;dessins in French,gravures English-titled.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held,at the Galerie Claude Bernard,Paris, April 1975.Presents in a comprehensive and elegant manner,the artist's drawings and engravings which,
as a body of work,remain one of his finest achievements.Retrospective monograph and collection on/of the artist.
One of the most delicately beautiful and important titles of Hockney's oeuvre,and with possible specialised,low print-runs,low distribution both in France and worldwide,and out-of-print too,a very,
very scarce copy - particularly in this grade/
condition.
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