Lot n° 40
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ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. 9 volumes: - Lot 40
ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. 9 volumes:
- ERLANDE (Albert). Festival. Illustrated with woodcuts by André Favory. Paris, Librairie de France, (1924), in-4, 8 unnumbered quires. Loose-leaf, folded printed cover. - Interior in very fresh condition; cover caps worn; small cracks on the spine; no missing pages.
First edition of Erlande’s poem. First printing of Favory’s Cubist-inspired woodcuts (vignettes and one insert). Printed in a run of 475 copies.
- GASTON-CHARLES (R.). [JONAS]. La Belle au Bois & Le Prince Charmant. Novel... illustrated by Lucien Jonas... Saint-Omer, Loïez, 1930, in-4, 2ff.-211pp.-1f. Paperback. - Copy from the edition run, in fine condition.
Edition printed in a run of 350 copies. Illustrations in vignettes or half-page spreads, lithographed by the artist and Mrs. Fayolle-Laplanche.
- HAUVETTE (Pierre-Abel) - [LE FAUCONNIER (J.)]. A Short Mediterranean Suite. Preface by Georges Conchon. Illustrations by Janine Le Fauconnier.
Chamalières, Les Cahiers de l'Amitié, 1965, in-4, 51 pp., 1 folio. Loose-leaf, printed cover, slipcase. - One of the first 20 copies printed on pure-rag Arches vellum, personalized. It is enhanced with an original drawing by the artist in blue felt-tip pen (Church of Cagnes); a handwritten copy of the poem “Beaulieu” signed by the author; an autographed dedication by the author and the artist; and several documents and press clippings. In very fine condition.
Printed in an edition of 320 copies.
- [HOMER]. Nausicaa. Excerpt from the Odyssey. Illustrations by Marie-Louise Rossignol.
Paris, Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, (1946), in-4, 2ff.–32pp.–2ff.– 2 inserts. Paperback, folded cover. - In excellent condition.
Printed in an edition of 1,000 copies. 2 large color plates.
- MERIMEE (Prosper) - [HERMANN-PAUL]. The Souls in Purgatory. Fifteen watercolors by Hermann Paul. Paris, Kieffer, 1929, quarto. 1 folio, 95 pp., 1 folio—15 plates. Paperback, brick-red folded cover. Very fresh copy, but the spine is broken.
Printed in an edition of 480 copies. 15 compositions by Hermann Paul, carefully hand-colored. (Carteret V, p. 138).
- VARILLE (Mathieu) - [CHIEZE]. The Fountains of Provence. Woodcuts by Jean Chièze.
Lourmarin, Les Terrasses de Lourmarin, 1930, in-4. 100 pp.—2ff. Paperback, filled cover. Margins slightly sun-faded; very faint water stain on the outer edge of the back cover.
Edition printed in a run of 346 copies; one of the 25 non-commercial copies printed on green paper. It bears an autograph dedication by the author to Ch. Gourbeyre. Illustrated with 12 full-page compositions, as well as woodcut headbands and footers by Jean Chièze. Carefully printed by the Lyon-based typographer Marius Audin
- VAUDOYER (Jean-Louis). Suzanne and Italy: Informal Letters.
Paris, Floury, 1909, in-4 booklet. 52 pp.—1f. Paperback, cover of filled-in laid paper, label. Light foxing.
Ten letters in verse, preceded by a dedication to Ch. Du Bos. Printed in an edition of 500 copies on laid paper, at the Emilienne printing house in Venice.
- VERDET (André) [CARZOU]. Provence. Introduction by Pierre Cabanne.
Monte Carlo, Sauret, 1966, in-4, 173 pp.—1 folio. Publisher’s cloth binding, dust jacket, slipcase. Very fresh copy.
Numerous full-page reproductions of Carzou’s works, in black and white or in color. The dust jacket features an original lithograph printed by Mourlot.
- ZERVOS (Christian) and VARIOUS AUTHORS. Corpora. Works 1951–1957.
Paris, Cahiers d’Art, May 1957, folio album, 76 pp. – 2 ff. – color or black-and-white reproductions on mounted coated paper, a few black-and-white reproductions in the text. Publisher’s cloth binding, printed dust jacket.
One of 25 copies enriched with a lithograph, which is missing from this copy. Volume in good condition.
In addition to Ch. Zervos, contributions by Lionello Venturi; Guy Mrester; Frank Elgar; Guido Ballo; Léon Degand; André Chastel... Catalog of the artist’s exhibitions and bibliography.
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