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150
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MAUPASSANT Guy de: Contes de la bécasse.
See original version (French)
150
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MAUPASSANT Guy de: Contes de la bécasse.
See original version (French)
Estimate 800 € - 1 000 €
Voluntary lot
Description
MAUPASSANT Guy de: Contes de la bécasse. Librairie Plon Paris, 1931. Edition illustrated with a cover and 73 original coloured woodcuts drawn and engraved by Pierre Falké. Edition of 235 copies, this being one of 200 copies on Arches vellum, with an original Indian ink drawing on page 133. Bound in 4, full brown morocco, smooth spine with mosaic decoration of horizontal bands in Empire green, running across the boards, and ending in a series of horizontal bands in red and beige, in a geometrical composition of black, beige and red leather, gilt and cold-stamped fillets, gilt head, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (binding signed F. Durand).
See original version (French)
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