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Crait+Muller Charenton-Vincennes

472 - A set of 3 works by Lévis-Mano, Guy.
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Estimate 150 € - 250 €
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A set of 3 works by Lévis-Mano, Guy. 1/ - Thirteen Minutes. Paris, Henry Parville, 1927. Quarto, loose-leaf, in a marbled violet cover with title label – slight foxing on the back cover with damage to the endpaper – [2 ff.], 13 pp., [3 pp., including 2 bl.]. Illustrated with a portrait of the author on the frontispiece and a line drawing by F. Nicole. Printed in a run of 218 copies; this is one of the 150 printed on alfa paper from the Papeteries Sorel-Moussel (no. 85). 2/ - Fait divers. Paris, Éditions “Minutes”, Librairie La Plume d’Or, 1932. Quarto in loose sheets with a cover featuring large flaps made of reinforced craft paper, painted black on the outside. Title label illustrated with a collage – minor tears to the headbands – [14 ff.]. Illustrated with 6 full-page drawings by Raymond Gid. Printed in a run of 250 copies; this is one of 234 on Alfax Navarre paper (no. 203). 3/ - Three printers had had enough. Paris, GLM, 1935. Work produced in collaboration with Georges Duchêne and Roger Bonon in 1934 (imprimatur 1935). Small 8vo, paperback with a typographic cover – [16 ff., including 1 blank leaf]. Illustrated with a drawing by Raymond Gid. Printed in a run of 145 copies; this is one of the 125 printed by heliography (no. 22), following 20 special editions on Normandy vellum. A delightful experiment in combining typographic typefaces in the service of poetry and for the pleasure of the eye. 4/ - Minutes. Second issue. Paris, G.L.M., February 1931. Quarto, loose-leaf, in a printed cover – [10 ff.]. Illustrated with 3 drawings by Klein, 1 by Jean Janin, and 2 black-and-white reproductions of paintings, one by Jean Janin and the other by Adriaan Lubbers. With texts by Countee Cullen, G. Lévis-Mano, Pierre Brasseur, Juan Loguaiyu, and African-American plantation songs translated and paraphrased by Jules Casadesus. Printed in a run of 187 numbered copies; this is one of the 175 printed using offset (no. 69).
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