Gros & Delettrez
231
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[ART BOOKS. MODERN ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS].
See original version (French)
231
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[ART BOOKS. MODERN ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS].
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[ART BOOKS. MODERN ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS].
LOT of 7 titles.
-VOLTAIRE.
The Princess of Babylon. Munich, 1922.
Large quarto. Half-basane leather with maroon corners.
-GUIRAMAND. APOLLINAIRE.
*Alcools*. Paris, Editions Lidis, 1944.
Very small folio, loose sheets in a folder and the publisher’s beige slipcase.
-MONTHERLANT.
Of Today and of All Time. Toison d’Or, 1944.
-MONTHERLANT.
Mariette Lydis ‘New French Editions’
Printed on grey laid paper.
-Charles PEGUY.
March 1953, Draeger frères. Paperback, in-4
2 double-page colour screen prints and black-and-white illustrations / Pages taken from Charles Péguy’s ‘L’Argent’ on work and two periods in the life of the working class.
-Elegia para Magda.
Mexico City, 1956.
Small folio, paperback with plain pink cover.
Black-and-white plates by various artists; signed but not by the author.
-MARYAN.
Paris, Galerie de France, 1965.
With a drawing and dedication on the title page.
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, frequented both the 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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