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VIAL MAZEL (G.). [PROVENCE].
See original version (French)
236
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VIAL MAZEL (G.). [PROVENCE].
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
VIAL MAZEL (G.). [PROVENCE].
Le Bras de St. Honorat.
Saigon, Presses de la Sili, November 1944.
Large quarto, (1)-(2 blank folios)-49 -(1) pp. Contemporary fir-green morocco-bound percaline, smooth spine highlighted with blind-stamped fillets, title blind-stamped lengthwise (a few discreet scuffs and stains but a good copy).
A rare first edition of this story set on Saint-Honorat, one of the two main Lérins Islands off the coast of Cannes.
Illustrated by LE GUIREC with 7 beautiful colour screen-printed compositions, signed and
glued into the pages, including 2 full-page illustrations and a tailpiece.
A correction in ink in the author’s own hand on p. 41.
A fine Indochinese print on local laid paper, with no print run details.
An authentic account of a Provençal childhood...
Includes a dedication from the author to the Academician Georges Duhamel.
“These pages, recounting an authentic memory of a childhood in Provence, were published during the Japanese occupation of Indochina / I ask Mr Georges Duhamel to accept these as a token of (...) and affectionate regard / In memory of his trip to Indochina, November–December 1947: Vial Mazel / President of the Alliance Française Committee in Indochina”.
Enclosed:
-VAUDOYER.
Fontaines de Provence. Etchings by Robert Guilhermet.
Paris, Les Editions de la Pierre Percée, 1948.
Large quarto, printed cover with flaps.
A good copy.
-VERDET, André.
Provence Noire.
Paris, Cercle d’Art, 1955
Large quarto. Paperback (dust jacket very slightly rubbed and stained).
Dust jacket illustrated with a large original black-and-white composition by Picasso.
First edition. Black-and-white photographs by Gilles Ehrmann, printed by rotogravure. The author’s first album. A fine copy.
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.
See original version (French)
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