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Gros & Delettrez

136 - [SPORTS. GAMES].
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Estimate €80 - €100
Description
[SPORTS. GAMES]. Set of 5 titles. 19th–20th centuries. -Léon VILLE. French Wrestling. Paris, Librairie Mondaine, 1891. In-12. Publisher’s grey percaline. With reproductions of photographs. First edition. Rare. No copies in the CCFr. -LAUN. Rules of Croquet and Lawn Tennis. Paris, Delarue, (c. 1900). In-12, paperback, printed cover (cover soiled but a good copy) Rare. No copies in the CCFr. -GROSCLAUDE. Three Heroes of the Air. For the friends of Dr Lucien-Graux 27 pp. on laid paper with coloured header, 3 photographic portraits with a dedication and a signed invitation card. -SEGUELA. BAUDOT. Around the World in 100,000 km in a Citroën 2CV. Servant-Crouzet, 1960. Oblong quarto, 36 pp. Stapled, illustrated cover. Black-and-white photographs and drawings. Illustrated with 10 photographs and 10 drawings by CESAR. -SAUZEY. Sautez ! Jump ! Parachute training. Librairie Grump, 1945. Oblong 12mo. Paperback, illustrated cover. Bilingual. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in both Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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