L`ART CUBISTE, Théories et Réalisations, Etude Critique.

Janneau Guillaume
Published by Éditions d Art Charles Moreau, Paris., 1929
A note on the publication details states that this is copy no 683 - total limitation is not given. 10 pages including initial blanks and the title page. 116 further pages. 48 Illustrations of which 13, including the cover illustration, are in fine pochoir. Text pages unopened and also browned. Paper wrap covers sunned, particularly the spine. Mushroom shaped 6cm light stain to the top edge of front cover; another thin light stain crossing in to the image. Some staining, creases and wear to the spine. But all intact. Dustiness and minor marks; internally clean. Very good plus. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, Alexander Bland . When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, He and Maude were like my family.