40 - ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. 9 volumes:
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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 very fresh, top and bottom edges of the cover worn, slight cracking on the spine, no loss of paper. First edition of Erlande’s poem. First print run 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 print run, in fresh 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-fibre Arches vellum, inscribed with the owner’s name. It is enhanced by an original drawing by the artist in blue felt-tip pen (church at 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 cuttings. In very fresh condition. Printed in a run 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 plates. Paperback, folded cover. – In very good condition. Printed in a run of 1,000 copies. 2 large colour plates. - MERIMÉE (Prosper) - [HERMANN-PAUL]. The Souls in Purgatory. Fifteen watercolours by Hermann Paul. Paris, Kieffer, 1929, quarto. 1 folio – 95 pp. – 1 folio – 15 plates. Paperback, brick-coloured folded cover. Very fresh copy, but the spine is broken. Printed in a run of 480 copies. 15 compositions by Hermann Paul, carefully hand-coloured. (Carteret V, p. 138). - VARILLE (Mathieu) - [CHIEZE]. Les Fontaines de 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 second cover board. 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 headbands and tailpieces, wood-engraved by Jean Chièze. Carefully printed by the Lyon-based typographer Marius Audin - VAUDOYER (Jean-Louis). Suzanne and Italy, familiar letters. Paris, Floury, 1909, in-4 booklet. 52 pp.–1f. Paperback, cover of filled 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, on the presses of the Emilienne printing works in Venice. - VERDET (André) [CARZOU]. Provence. Introduction by Pierre Cabanne. Monte Carlo, Sauret, 1966, quarto, 173 pp. – 1 folio. Publisher’s cloth binding, dust jacket, plain slipcase. A very fine copy. Numerous full-page reproductions of Carzou’s works, in black and white or in colour. 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, quarto album, 76 pp. – 2 folios. – colour or black-and-white reproductions on mounted coated paper, a few black-and-white reproductions in the text. Bound in the publisher’s cloth, with a 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… Catalogue of the artist’s exhibitions and bibliography.

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40 - ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. 9 volumes: See original version (French)

40 - ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. 9 volumes:
See original version (French)