Description
MORAND (Paul).
Charleston, USA.
Liège: À la lampe d’Aladdin, 1928. — In-8, 215 x 160: (4 leaves, the first two blank), 42 pp., (4 leaves, the last two blank), 5 plates, illustrated cover. Loose-leaf, bound cover, in the publisher’s illustrated cardboard slipcase.
First edition of this short story by Paul Morand, featuring an African-American dancer who, in 1920s Harlem, is initiated into voodoo practices.
The illustrations comprise 6 original lithographs, including 5 insert plates, a two-colour composition on the cover and a black-and-white one on the slipcase, by the painter, draughtsman and lithographer BÉCAN (1890–1943), pseudonym of Bernhard Cahn.
One of 76 copies printed on vintage Vidalon vellum (no. 44), enhanced with two sets of supplementary plates, on Japanese paper and China paper.
A very well-preserved copy despite the soiled covers of the slipcase. It is complete with both fabric ties.
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About the sale
Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
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10/21/2026 at 2:00 PM
Lot description modified on 10/12/2026 at 10:47 AM
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