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KIPLING, Rudyard.
See original version (French)
185
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KIPLING, Rudyard.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
KIPLING, Rudyard.
The Most Beautiful Story in the World.
Paris, René Kieffer, 1919.
Large 8vo. Morocco leather with bands and vellum, mosaic-patterned text. Smooth spine, gilt title and gilt lines; cover intact, gilt head, fine endpapers (slight rubbing)
In an Art Deco binding, probably by UCAD or associates.
First edition of the illustrations by Maxime Dethomas, published in a run of 550 copies.
Our copy is one of the copies printed on Arches-style laid paper, no. 517.
Translated by Louis Fabulet and Robert d’Humières.
Text and illustrations in sepia printed on a yellow background.
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, was as much at home in Parisian artistic and literary circles as he was in the world of the decorative arts and their schools, thanks to his uncle, the architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, 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.
See original version (French)
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