Claude Cahun. Le cœur de pic (The Heart of Spades)

Claude Cahun

Le cœur de pic (The Heart of Spades)

Published 1937

Book with twenty relief-halftone reproductions of photographs by Cahun; letterpress text; publisher’s original binding with covers of embossed paper over boards with relief-halftone reproductions of photographs on front and back, and green cloth spine

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Author Lise Hirtz (Lise Deharme), Paul Éluard (preface)
Medium Book with twenty relief-halftone reproductions of photographs by Cahun; letterpress text; publisher’s original binding with covers of embossed paper over boards with relief-halftone reproductions of photographs on front and back, and green cloth spine
Dimensions Pages: 10 1/2 × 7 11/16 in. (26.6 × 19.6 cm); Book (closed): 10 15/16 × 8 9/16 × 1/2 in. (27.8 × 21.7 × 1.3 cm)
Publisher Librairie José Corti, Paris
Printer Imprimeries Françaises Réunies, Paris
Edition Unspecified
Credit Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Object number 458.2022
Department Drawings and Prints

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