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Gros & Delettrez
233 - B
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[ARTISTIC BINDINGS. PAPERS].
See original version (French)
233 - B
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[ARTISTIC BINDINGS. PAPERS].
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
[ARTISTIC BINDINGS. PAPERS].
LOT of 3 volumes, in-12 or square in-8. Modern Bradel-style cardboard bindings in handmade or domino-patterned paper, with gilt heads depicting the circle of UCAD students.
Good copies.
Bindings unsigned but originating from the UCAD workshops or associated circles.
-LATOUR. FOCILLON, Henri.
L’Île oubliée.
Paris: Printed by Léon Pichon, 1920.
In-8, modern cardboard binding, plain spine with title label in fawn morocco.
First edition of this evocation of the Île Saint-Louis. Illustrated with 9 woodcuts, including one as a frontispiece, by Alfred Latour. Limited, numbered edition.
-SEM. ANDRE, L.
*La Ronde de Nuit*.
Paris, *Le Livre de Demain*, Arthème Fayard & Cie, (1923).
8vo, marbled Bradel cardboard binding, orange title label, gilt head, cover and spine preserved.
-LABOUREUR. BILLY, André.
*La Malabée*.
Paris, Société Littéraire de France, 1917.
In-12, contemporary cardboard binding in mottled paper, cover and spine preserved.
Illustrated with 5 black-and-white drawings by Laboureur.
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 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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