First edition of this lovely book marking Paul Éluard's last collaboration with Pablo PICASSO. Edition of 2,250 copies, this being one of the 150 first copies on vellum pur fil Johannot (no. LXXXIII), enriched with AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY PICASSO, unsigned, depicting Françoise Gilot wearing a dove's headdress, dated in the plate "29.9,51"