80 - SEGALEN (VICTOR)
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Estimate €200 - €300

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SEGALEN (VICTOR) Orpheus the King. An illustrated edition featuring original woodcuts by G.-D. de MONFREID, with a frontispiece based on a work by Gustave MOREAU. Paris, Georges Crès, ‘Le Théâtre d’art’ series, 1921. In-8, lemon-coloured half-maroquin with corner pieces, ribbed spine, gilt title, date at the foot, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (bound by A. Mertens). Frontispiece after Gustave Moreau and 8 illustrations, including 6 headpieces, by George-Daniel de Monfreid. First edition, printed in a run of 1,430 numbered copies; no. 628 of 1,400 on Rives vellum. A fine, well-bound copy. Also included are two further volumes from the same edition, this time paperback: no. 1007 (on Rives vellum) and no. 1019 (on Rives vellum), with a worn cover. A project for a lyric drama conceived in collaboration with Claude Debussy, Victor Segalen’s *Orphée*, born of their mutual admiration and elaborated at length between 1907 and 1916 around a renewed and profoundly human vision of the myth, could not be set to music due to the composer’s illness and subsequent death, leaving the work in the form of a stand-alone poetic drama. Also included: *Segalen and Debussy*. Texts collected and presented by Annie Joly-Segalen and André Schaeffner. Monaco, Éditions du Rocher, [1962]. Square 8vo, paperback. Correspondence between Debussy and Victor Segalen. First edition.

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Auction time 10/25/2026 at 10:00 AM

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80 - SEGALEN (VICTOR) See original version (French)

80 - SEGALEN (VICTOR)
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