[VERVE] ELEFTHERIADES, Stratis (?T?riade?), editor. The First Three Issues of Verve. Paris, 1937-38. Small folios. American issues with Esquire-Coronet gold printed stickers affixed to titles. Publisher?s pictorial wrappers, all three issues bound together in grey cloth, leather spine label titled in gilt. Includes Vol. I, No. 1 (December 1937, cover by Henri Matisse); Vol. I, No. 2 (Spring 1938, cover by Georges Braque); and Vol. I, No. 3 (October-December 1938, cover by Pierre Bonnard). Profusely illustrated by various artists and in various mediums throughout from photographs (including many heliogravures), drawings, paintings, etc. + numerous original lithographs, including artwork by Miro, Klee, Chagall,?Kandinsky, and others (small marginal tear to Bores litho, occasional toning at margins); else fine.