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482 - Love apples. Picked by a gourmet for the friends of gaiety.
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Estimate €4,000 - €5,000

Description

Love apples. Picked by a gourmet for the friends of gaiety. Decorated with a frontispiece and twenty-five engravings coloured in watercolour. In-8° (inc. of one plate, rare faint russets and slight tears, small marg. tear restored on last plate). - Very rare first edition of this collection of 25 short stories, illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 (out of 25: without plate 21 for "Première fournée") colour engravings, unsigned, very free and in a "fin de siècle style, a little naive, but pleasant" (Pia). Perceau was only aware of them via underground catalogues. - Ref Pia 1162-1163. - Dutel 701. - Perceau 145. - WorldCat (1 single copy: BL).

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About the sale Prints & Drawings, Photographs & Comics, Rare Books, Atlases & Manuscripts, Surrealism, Congo, Erotica & Ballets russes

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Auction time 06/25/2026 at 1:00 PM

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482 - Love apples. Picked by a gourmet for the friends of gaiety. See original version (French)

482 - Love apples. Picked by a gourmet for the friends of gaiety.
See original version (French)