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METAYER-MERMOZ Maison de Ventes aux Enchères NEVERS

140 - [LITERATURE/MODERN ILLUSTRATED WORKS]
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Estimate €100 - €120
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[LITERATURE/MODERN ILLUSTRATED WORKS] A collection of works illustrated by Théophile Steinlen: -MOREL (Emile)/ STEINLEN (Théophile)] Les Gueules noires, Paris, Edward Sansot, 1907 A paperback quarto volume with an illustrated cover, comprising 207 pages. Stated as the second edition, published one year after the Courrières mining disaster (10 March 1906), in which over 1,000 miners died as a result of the collapse of the tunnels. Edition illustrated with 15 lithographs by Steinlen (separate from the text) and vignettes. The text and illustrations are very dark. Cover damaged. Head and tail caps worn away. -DESCAVES (Lucien)/ STEINLEN (Théophile)] Barabbas, paroles dans la vallée, Paris, Eugène Rey, 1914 First edition, unnumbered copy. A quarto-sized paperback volume, with an illustrated dust jacket, comprising 259 pages. - RICTUS (Jéhan)] ...Le coeur populaire, Paris, Eugène Rey, 1914 One of a thousand copies printed on Arches vellum paper (no. 339) with a frontispiece portrait by Steinlen. A volume bound in full black leather, smooth spine, 222 pages. -RICTUS (Jéhan) Les soliloques du pauvre, Paris, Eugène Rey, 1913 A revised, corrected and expanded edition featuring previously unpublished poems. A volume in half-maroquin with black bands, title and author’s name stamped on the spine
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