La Tempete
The Tempest
(1965)
William Shakespear
French Translation by Andre du Bouchet
Le Compte d'un Amateur, Paris
26 original lithographs, 11 full page, 5 half pages and five title
pages; loose pages as issued.
Considered by Fini to be her most beautiful book. The soft, watercolor
lithographs capture the dream-like felling of the Bard's tale.
Signed by Fini and du Bouchet.
Edition of 200. CFM has #184/200
$9,500
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Livre de Monelle
(1965)
Marcell Schwob
Editions L.C.L. Paris
20 beautifully delicate line drawings.
Numbered copies in gold stamped beige boards with a matching houndstooth
paper slip case.
Edition of 3000.
$225
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Oevres Imaginatives et Poetiques
Complete de Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
(1966)
Edgar Allan Poe
French Translation by Charles Baudelaire with a forward by Charles
Moulin
Editions Vialetay, Lausanne
60 full page illustrations. Bound in red 'leather'
with gold embossing on the covers and spines. Top pages gilt.
There is a blind embossing of Poe on each cover.
$1,600
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Le Tentation de Saint Antoine
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
(1966)
Gustave
Flaubert
Les Editions Fagola de Turin
10 Original full page lithographs pencil signed by Fini. This copy
has been bound in red leather with good tooling and is contained
in a pumpkin colored slip case. [Note: The book was originally realeased
loose in folio]. Includes a unique faux wood bookmark with a Fini
etching.
Edition of 396, plus 21 lettered Collaborators' Copies. This is
Copy "S"
(5" tear on page 237 does not affect any artwork)
$10,000
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Le Visiteur Royal
The Royal Visitor
(1967)
Henrik Pontoppidan
La Collection des Prix Nobel de Literature under the Patronage of
L'Academie Suedoise and La Fondation Nobel, Paris
9 reproductions of original lithographs; bound in white leatherette
with a Picasso drawing reproduced in color on the cover. Strong
colors and impressionist style make these extremely arresting images
stand out from the normal body of Fini's work.
$150
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Leonor Fini: Peintures
Paintings
(1968)
Constantine Jelenski
(French with English Translation)
La Guilde du Livre and Clairfontaine, Lusanne
Many tipped-in color plates and black and white illustrations.
An important study of Fini's paintings.
HC Edition of 5,000 numebred copies. Printed for the
Guilde du Livre. Illustrated pictorial boards.
$750
2nd Edition, 1968; bound in black cloth boards with
illustrated dust jacket.
$650
3rd Edition: bound in black cloth boards with illustrated
dust jacket.
$500
3rd Edition. New dust jacket with illustration of L'Escapolette
(The Swing).
$500
3rd Edition (English). Pictorial boards with illustration
of Les Aveugles (The Blind.) The only major work on Fini's
paintings in English.
$400
4th Edition (1980), bound in black cloth boards with
pictorial dust jacket. Plates are no longer tipped in; some
changes in illustrations. Lighter stock paper.
$225
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Variations sur L'Amour
(1968)
Edited by Philippe Lebaud
Texts by various authors.
Includes artwork by Fini and 19 other 20th Century artists.
Club du Livre, Paris
All lithographs and texts are signed by the artist or author.
Bound in heavy gold embossed black leather and in a fittled
'faux' book box.
Edition of 190
$6,000
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La Fanfarlo
(1969)
Charles Baudelaire
Afterward by Yves Florenne
La Diane Francais, Nice
12 signed colored original lithographs; blue-gray silk presentation
box; loose pages, as issued.
Signed by Fini on the limitation page.
#73/155
$8,500
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Oh! Violette ou
La Politesse des Vegetaux
Oh! Violette or the Manners of Vegetables
(1969)
Lise Deharme
(Pseudonym of ANne-Marie Hirtz)
8 full page line illustrations on shocking pink
paper; bound in olive cloth boards with an illustrated dust jacket
of the same pink.
One of two books illustrated by Fini for this
surrealist writer.
$125
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Satiricon
(1970)
1736 Translation by Nodot
Editions Araine Lancell, Paris
11 full page original lithographs, 14 smaller
original lithographs in sepia. Loose in folio enclosed in black
silk folder within an orange cloth case.
Fini's illustrations for this ancient manuscript
(first century AD) that was discovered in Belgrade in 1688.
Edition of 300
$3,000
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Leonor Fini
Graphique
Oeuvre Graphique
(1971)
Jean-Paul Guibbert
Editions Clairefontaine, Lausanne
Many tipped in color plates and black and white
illustrations; bound in black cloth boards with pictorial dust
jacket featuring Cocteau Sphinx from "Portraits
de Famille." An important study of Fini's graphic works.
$750
Numbered Edition of 5000, Printed for the
Guilde du Livre.
$850
2nd Edition (1976) with an orange illustrated dust jacket.
$225
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Mervielles de
la Nature
Natural Wonders
(1971)
Introduction by Svero Sarduy
Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Rome
52 sepia and 47 black and white photo-reproduction
drawings. Red cloth boards with gold imprint on spine and front
cover in matching slip-case.
"X" rated collection of highly graphic
and erotic drawings.
$325
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Carnet des
Chats
Cat's Notebook
(1972)
Gallery Lambert Monet, Geneva
50 full color illustrations of wonderfully silly cats in preposterous
situations. There is no text.
$400
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