[Chagall. Signed copy] Jacques Lassaigne. Chagall

Paris, Maeght, 1957, 177(2) p., (incl. a sizable part of the text by Chagall himself), with 15 lithographs: coloured title page, 11 plates (of which 4 folding), 2 monochrome plates and original wrapper, with many other illustrations, 4to.

Occasional stains (incl. wrapper), paper on spine ends damaged. Fully signed in blue ballpoint on title page. Mourlot 192-205, 207. Sorlier 193-205. The very rare first edition of this important monograph, with the period after "Paris VIII." on the reverse of the title page, and with the two white stains on the blue lithograph of the flutist (Mourlot 197, at the corner of the mouth and below the eye).