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a blue and white sign that says hassan beaded dine elbass sravvia book with a drawing of a bear on itan image of a painting of a woman with a cigarette in her handan image of a painting of a woman holding a knifea picture of a brown and blue book on a tablea brown book with a blue cover on a white table
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151 - VAN DONGEN (Kees). – MARDRUS (Dr J.
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Estimate €4,000 - €6,000
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VAN DONGEN (Kees). – MARDRUS (Dr J.-C.). HASSAN BADREDDINE EL BASSRAOUI. Tales from the 1,001 Nights. Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1918. Quarto, beige morocco leather; on both covers, a rectangular geometric design in blue morocco leather, adorned on the sides by six circular panels of black morocco leather featuring blue morocco leather stars; the black centre on the front cover bears the title in reserve on a rectangular palladium-plated plate (this area remains in black morocco on the back cover), spine adorned with a large panel of black morocco, blue at the ends; the inner border is decorated with a broad palladium-plated fillet between two cold-stamped fillets; blue silk endpapers and lining; untrimmed; cover and spine; modern half-maroquin slipcase and case (Inv. Pierre Legrain, R. Kieffer). Cover and 7 watercolours, outside the text, reproduced by stencil; 67 full-page drawings and 42 black-and-white drawings within the text, by Kees Van Dongen. Printed in an edition of 310 copies. AN INTERESTING BINDING BY PIERRE LEGRAIN, THE ONLY ONE MADE FOR THIS BOOK. It is described in the Legrain Catalogue, no. 658, held at the Georges Lang Library (I, 1925, no. 205, with reproduction) Provenance: Private collection, France.
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About the sale Modern and classical art & jewellery
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Auction time 09/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
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