LAM (Wifredo) - PIERRE (José). Pleni Luna. Stockholm, A.H. Grafik; Cachan, Guillard-Gourdon,1974. In folio-raisin (650 x 503 mm). In sheets, in a blue cloth slipcase lined with yellow paper, with the artist's signature and title on the spine. Texts in love by the surrealist poet José Pierre, ILLUSTRATIONS BY WIFREDO LAM, "the Cuban magician", of 10 very large-format, free-format full-page colour lithographs, each signed and numbered, which accompany "Dix poèmes fous rires dans les fourrés" (Lam / Tonneau-Ryckelynck 2016, no. 304 to 313). Illustrations by Lam in black and white in the text. "These lithographs ...are an excellent example of LAM'S ABILITY TO SUCCESSFULLY COMBINE ELEMENTS OF CUBISM, SURREALISM, AND THE FANTASTIC IMAGES FROM CARIBBEAN VOODOO". Preface on Lam, "The Cubansk Magiker", by Ragnar von Holten, a Swedish art historian who lived in Paris from 1955 and organised the first international exhibition of Surrealism in Sweden in 1970. Edition of 312 numbered copies, this one no. 261, one of 262 on arches (Artcurial sale 8 November 2005, lot 132). RARE, MISSING FROM THE BNF AND THE CCF, VERY FEW COMPLETE COPIES EVER SOLD. A VERY FINE COPY.