Picasso: Creator and Destroyer

560pp, five sections totalling 60 pages of black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Top corners lightly bumped. Cocked. Light blue endpapers. Pages starting to tan. Previous owner's name and date on front pastedown. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has a 5cm tear where the front board meets spine, shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Compelling biography which captures all of Picasso's magnetism, and obsessive passions, and the struggle between his power to create and his compulsion to destroy.