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234 - THARAUD (Jérôme and Jean). A KINGDOM OF GOD.
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Estimate €150 - €200
Description
THARAUD (Jérôme and Jean). A KINGDOM OF GOD. Paris: Éditions Lapina, 1925. Large quarto, dark brown morocco, havana morocco lining, moiré endpapers, ribbed spine, gilt title, date at the foot, gilt edges, original cover preserved, edged slipcase (Canape). Modern ex-libris glued to the front lining. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION featuring 86 original etchings by Lucien MADRASSI. Limited edition of 420 numbered copies on Arches vellum, printed to size. ONE of the 25 copies numbered on Imperial Japanese paper, reprinted, with the AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURES of the authors and the artist on the margin. ENCLOSED is a specimen copy of the work containing a full-page etching – THARAUD (Jérôme and Jean). L’OMBRE ET LA CROIX. Paris, Société du Livre d’Art, printed by the Imprimerie Nationale, 1924. Large quarto, paperback, with the publisher’s slipcase and cover. Spine of the slipcase darkened with a few stains. ILLUSTRATED EDITION featuring 95 original WOODCUTS by Henry CHEFFER, in black and monochrome. Limited edition of 150 COPIES, numbered on Arches vellum to size. ONE of the 100 reserved for members of the Society. AUTOGRAPHED DEDICATION signed across the full page on the half-title page: ‘To Mr and Mrs d’Eichthal, in memory of the very pleasant evening of 25 February 1931 / J. J. Tharaud ’. Copy in PERFECT CONDITION. SET OF 2 VOLUMES from the ‘Hornus’ library, with bookplates.
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