Matisse, Henri; Riva Castleman and Sophie Hawkes — Jazz

New York, George Braziller, 1985. Hardcover. Navy boards with mounted color illustration on front cover, white spine lettering; xviii, 146 (6) pp; bw and color illustrations. Text in English and French. Contents: Jazz: the text -- Jazz -- Table of images. "This work was finished to print, by the care of teriade for the editions verve, on September 30, 1947. The plates were executed with a stencil after the collages and on the decoupages of Henri Matisse, by Edmond Vairel who used the same linel gouaches as the artieste. The cover and pages of the manuscript were engraved and printed by draeger freres. It was drawn on vellum d'Arches two hundred and fifty copies numbered from 1 to 250 and twenty non-commercial copies numbered from I to XX. all copies have been signed by the artist. In addition, a hundred albums were produced, comprising exclusively all the plates from the book. -Rear colophon. "Facsimile of the colophon tot he original edition of 250 copies, signed by the artist and published by Teriade for Editions Verve on 30 September 1947. VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clean.) .