André François, Harry N. Abrams, 1987, HC, NF.

François, André, and Edward Booth-Clibborn. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/4" x 10 1/4", [5] 240 pp.

ISBN: 0810909421

Gray illustrated cloth over board, featuring stamped black illustration to front panel, stamped black lettering to spine, minor sunning to top edge, light soiling to pg.8, otherwise, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Near Fine white pictorial dust jacket, featuring André François's 1975 artwork "Horse with two heads: Citroën 2CV" to front, 1980 artwork "Village Vacances Famille" to back, black and red lettering to front panel and spine, black lettering to interior flaps. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [5] 240 pp. Includes 250 illustrations with 150 full-color, Foreword by Edward Booth-Clibborn, "Souvenirs" by André François, six sections: Graphics and Illustration, Cartoons, Posters, Paintings and Drawings, Book Illustration, Stage Work, Sculpture, List of Plates, Published Posters, Published Works, One-Man Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions, and Awards and Prizes. From inside dust jacket: "The book reviews André François's entire oeuvre, taking the reader through the artist's remarkably varied career, from the late thirties to the present day, as a cartoonist, illustrator, poster artist, and most recently, painter and sculptor."