JAMES LORD. — Picasso and Dora. A Memoir. (INSCRIBED)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First UK Edition (first printing). This copy lengthily inscribed by the author in French on the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. 8vo. viii, 340pp. Maroon boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-six captioned black and white photographs and reproductions. A light crease to the rear board and a trace of bruising to the backstrip ends. Shakespeare & Co. inkstamp to the base of the title page. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of corresponding creasing to the spine panel ends, and a vertical crease to the front flap. A personal memoir of Pablo Picasso and his muse Dora Maar (Lord served in the US army during WWII, and after the liberation of Paris became a minor member of the Montparnasse scene, befriending Jean Cocteau, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Picasso & Dora Maar)., Very Good, Very Good