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Set of 5 numbered, illustrated paperback volumes:
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116
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Set of 5 numbered, illustrated paperback volumes:
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
Set of 5 numbered, illustrated paperback volumes:
-KIPLING, Rudyard. The Most Beautiful Story in the World. Translated from the English with the author’s permission by Louis Fabulet and Robert d’Humière. Accompanied by twenty sketches by Maxime Dethomas. Paris, René Kieffer, 1919, in-8. A fine copy. Title vignette and 20 illustrations in the text, including 1 end-paper illustration; text and illustrations printed on tinted paper. Printed in a run of 550 numbered copies. One of 50 on Japanese paper (no. 28). (Slightly sun-faded, one cap torn)
-HOUDELOT, Robert. *Seven War Poems*. Published by La Typographie, Paris, 1948, in-8. Illustrated by Jean Vital-Prost. One of 30 copies on rag paper with a set of woodcuts (no. 19). Sent by the author with five lines in his own hand. (Spine faded).
-JACKSON, John E. *Une écharpe d’eau fraiche*. Published by Unes, 1986, 8vo. Illustrated by Claude Garache. One of 50 copies on vellum with an original signed lithograph. Sent by Claude Garache.
-MIRBEAU, Octave. Sébastien Roch. Mornay, 1926, ill. by Siméon, copy on Japanese paper (no. 31)
-MUHEIM, Emmanuel. Like a Procession of Light. Square in-8, loose-leaf, cover, publisher’s wooden slipcase. No place, no publisher, 1982. First edition of the 12 poems by Emmanuel Muheim, accompanied by 12 original engravings in burin and drypoint by Alain de La Bourdonnaye, who designed and printed the book. A unique edition limited to 55 numbered copies on Arches vellum, signed by the author and the artist.
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