176 - [Collected Works] – From Ariane to Zoé.
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Estimate €180 - €250

Description

[Collected Works] – From Ariane to Zoé. A gallant and sentimental alphabet illustrated with verses, prose and lithographs, by twenty-six writers and as many artists. Paris, Librairie de France, 1930. Quarto, bound in green half-maroquin with corner pieces, highlighted with a gilt fillet, decorated ribbed spine, gilt title and head, covers and spine preserved – traces of water damage on the covers – [4 ff;], 192 pp. (the last unnumbered), [4 ff., table, blank page, table of illustrations, complete]. Texts by: H. de Regnier, J. Giraudoux, the Countess of Noailles, Colette, F. Mauriac, V. Larbaud, A. Maurois, P. Valéy, P. Morand, P. Mac Orlan, Tr. Dérème....illustrated with lithographs by Dunoyer de Segonzac, R. Dufy, B. Mahn, M. Laurencin, E. Legrand, Daragnès, M. Lydis, Chas Laborde… A print run of 220 numbered copies; this is one of the H-C copies intended for writers and artists. H-C copy on Van Gelder Holland paper intended for Jean Giraudoux, with ‘E.A.S.’ by J.-L. Vaudoyer. 23 of the lithographs are signed in pencil.

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176 - [Collected Works] – From Ariane to Zoé. See original version (French)

176 - [Collected Works] – From Ariane to Zoé.
See original version (French)