Derain (andré) - Friends & [and] Amille. Draw At 150.

DERAIN (André, lithographs by) - BOURGES (Elémir, trad. by). Friends & [and] Amille. Sl, New Parisian book circle, 1957. Unique edition of only 150 copies; plus 30 off-trade copies, all printed on Rives paper. One of the so-called ''chapel'' or ''de passe'' copies (''small numbered and unnumbered copies that the publisher intends for his collaborators, as well as the author and his relatives'' ). It contains - here in first printing - the delicate lithographs in and out of text by André Derain, printed by Mourlot Frères. ''Amille killed his children to cure Amis, his companion who was leprous; and, since, Our Lady resuscitated them''. Bénézit III, Dictionary of painters, p. 500. Some superficial alterations affecting the covers of the box. Back of the shirt with scattered rubbing. A perfectly preserved copy.