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Gros & Delettrez

235 - [20th-CENTURY LITERATURE. AUTOGRAPHED COPIES].
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Estimate €150 - €200
Description
[20th-CENTURY LITERATURE. AUTOGRAPHED COPIES]. A LARGE COLLECTION OF MODERN WORKS, ALL WITH AUTOGRAPHED COPIES BY THE AUTHOR. Paperback or hardback. All categories, in-12 or in-8 formats. Good copies on the whole. Including: BAYLE, Luc Marie. Le Voyage de la nouvelle incomprise. Paris, Editions Ozanne, 1753. In-4, the publisher’s cream-coloured cardboard binding (spine and edges of the covers worn). Author’s dedication page adorned with a small drawing. 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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