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Hôtel des Ventes de Clermont-Ferrand

308 - [HENRIOT (Emile, Texts compiled by) [FALKE (Pierre)].
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Estimate €400 - €500
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[HENRIOT (Emile, Texts compiled by) [FALKE (Pierre)]. Written in Lyon. By Charles Maurras, Emile Henriot, Léon Daudet, Guy Mazeline, Alexandre Arnous, André Billy, with original lithographs by Pierre Falké. Lyon, Lardanchet, 1943; large quarto. XXII–179 pp.–(1)–2 ff. Full black morocco, spine and covers decorated with a flight of gilded doves, title in gold on the upper cover, gilt fillet on the edges, endpapers in grey moiré silk, framed by black morocco and a burgundy morocco fillet, underlined by two series of 5 and 2 gilt fillets. Front endpapers lined with grey moiré silk, rear endpapers of marbled paper. Edges gilt on endpapers. Covers and spine preserved. Half-black morocco slipcase with a band bearing a gilt title. Edged slipcase. Bound by Louis Lévêque, who worked in Paris from 1930 to 1960. All leaves mounted on tabs. A very fine copy in a meticulously crafted and decorative binding. Edition printed in a run of 182 copies, one of 160 on numbered Rives vellum, illustrated on almost every page with colour lithographs, some of which are full-page. The preface is by Charles Maurras; ‘Entre deux fleuves’ by Émile Henriot; ‘Lyon, cité mystère’ by Léon Daudet; ‘Le Coeur de Lyon’ by Alexandre Arnoux; ‘Fraîcheur Marine’ by Guy Mazeline, and ‘Rapsodie lyonnaise’ by André Billy.
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About the sale ANTIQUE AND MODERN BOOKS at 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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