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537 - A collection of works published in Paris by GLM
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Estimate €200 - €280
Description
A collection of works published in Paris by GLM 1/ - Lévis-Mano, Guy. - *Mal à l’homme* (1948). In-4 in loose sheets, with a printed cover – 24 pp., [2 ff. of justification, blank]. Printed in a run of 266 copies; this is one of the 7 first-edition copies on blue vellum (no. 4). A fine first edition, with a revised version of the first quatrain, inscribed to Jean Petithory in June 1964. J. Petithory (1931–1964) ran the bookshop ‘Les Mains Libres’. 2/ – Kafka, Franz – Ernst, Max. – Gracchus the Hunter. A Hybrid. Le Pont (1970). Small in-8, paperback with printed cover – 35 pp., [3 pp., blank page, colophon, blank page]. Illustrated with a collage by M. Ernst as a frontispiece and a drawing on the title page. Printed in a run of 1,307 copies (no. 1,071/1,292, offset). 3/ - Haury, Marthe. - *Le Livre d’Aube* (1945). 8vo, paperback with printed cover and flaps – [20 ff.]. Printed in a run of 670 copies (no. 601/520, puffed laid paper). Beautiful layout by G.L.M. 4/ - Courthon, Pierre. - *L'Ange des tours penchées* (1936). 8vo, paperback with printed cover – [38 ff.]. Print run of 234 copies, one of the 180 numbered on vellum (no. 162). 5/ - Courthon, Pierre - Seligman, Kurt. - *Bal* (1935). Small in-4, paperback with printed cover - [12 ff.]. Illustrated with a composition by Séligmann as a frontispiece. Printed in a run of 125 numbered copies; this one is one of the 100 on tinted helioprint (no. 35). 6/ - Lorca, Federico García. - Poems selected and translated by Guy Lévis Mano, with the Spanish text and drawings by Lorca (1969). Quarto, paperback with printed cover – 105 pp., [5 pp., table of contents, colophon, blank page]. Illustrated with 9 drawings by Lorca (4 full-page, 5 inside). Printed in a run of 1,628 copies, one of the 1,600 on tinted Marais laid paper (no. 643). 7/ - Gebser, Jean - Garcia Lorca. - Lorca, Poet and Draughtsman (1949). Small quarto, loose-leaf, with illustrated cover – 39 pp., [2 pp.]. Illustrated with 13 full-page drawings by Lorca. Printed in a run of 1,020 copies; this one is one of 775 printed on Alfama paper (no. 633). 8/ - Caroll, Lewis - Hugo, Valentine. - The Hunting of the Snark. (1948). 8vo, paperback with typographic cover – 87 pp., [1 f.]. Illustrated with 9 compositions by Henri Holiday (8 collages and 1 map). Printed in a run of 1,080 copies; this is one of 1,055 printed on Marais vellum (no. 150).
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