(2) First Eight Issues Of Verve Bound Together As Two Volumes

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(lot of 2) Books: first eight issues of Verve bound together as two volumes, in red cloth, applied leather spine label with tooled and gilt titles and volume numbers, director: E. Teriade, published at 4 Rue Ferou, Paris, printed in France, with lithography by Mourlot Freres, featuring illustrations after Pierre Bonnard, Francisco Bores, Marc Chagall, Andre Derain, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, Georges-Henri Rouault, etc., including: (1) Verve: an Artistic and Literary Quarterly, Volume One, Numbers One (December 1937), Two (March-June 1938), Three (October-December 1938), and Four (January-March 1939), (1) Verve: The French Review of Art, Volume Two, Numbers Five and Six (July-October 1939), Number Seven (April-July 1940), Number Eight (September-November 1940), approx 14 3/8"h, 11"w; 17.75lbs total Provenance: from a California collection