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51-4198Paris: Chez l'artiste 1932. 4to. Fine. 320 x 266mm. Green morocco binding with gilt and black stamped motifs of leaves circles and curlicues signed by the binder. Dentelles of light green suede; matching half morocco chemise with spine slightly darkened in matching slipcase. This binding is correctly reproduced in "Georges Cretté. Études par Harry Vinckenbosch" which shows 3 bindings for this title at nos. 113-115. It is however reproduced as a binding for "Les Géorgiques" also illustrated by the artist. One of 150 numbered copies on Van Gelder with 36 incl. 13 hors texte etchings.References: Aimée Lioré & Pierre Cailler "Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Dunoyer de Segonzac. Tome III " nos. 596-631; Nicolas Rauch Les Peintres et le Livre Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1991 no. 120; Monod no. 3047; The Artist & The Book 1860-1960 no. 280.COLETTE. La Treille muscate. S.l.n.d. Paris 1932. Grand in-4° maroquin vert entièrement orné sur lesplats et le dos d’un décor personnalisé doré et à froid tranches dorées doublure et gardes de chamois beigecouverture conservée chemise en demi-maroquin vert à petits recouvrements et étui Georges Cretté.ÉDITION ORIGINALE & PREMIER TIRAGE.36 eaux-fortes par André DUNOYER de SEGONZAC la moitié à pleine page dont un frontispice et un portrait de Colette.Tiré à 165 exemplaires sur hollande Van Gelder celui-ci n° 94.Dos de la chemise passé.Expert Emmanuel de BROGLIECabinet Revel57 rue de Verneuil - 75007 Paris33 01 42 22 17 13 Paris: Chez l'artiste, 1932 unknown
13-1417Paris: Chez l'artiste 1932. 4to. Fine. 320 x 266mm. Green morocco binding with gilt and black stamped motifs of leaves circles and curlicues signed by the binder. Dentelles of light green suede; matching half morocco chemise with spine slightly darkened in matching slipcase. This binding is correctly reproduced in "Georges Cretté. Études par Harry Vinckenbosch" which shows 3 bindings for this title at nos. 113-115. It is however reproduced as a binding for "Les Géorgiques" also illustrated by the artist. One of 150 numbered copies on Van Gelder with 36 incl. 13 hors texte etchings.References: Aimée Lioré & Pierre Cailler "Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Dunoyer de Segonzac. Tome III " nos. 596-631; Nicolas Rauch Les Peintres et le Livre Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1991 no. 120; Monod no. 3047; The Artist & The Book 1860-1960 no. 280.COLETTE. La Treille muscate. S.l.n.d. Paris 1932. Grand in-4° maroquin vert entièrement orné sur lesplats et le dos d’un décor personnalisé doré et à froid tranches dorées doublure et gardes de chamois beigecouverture conservée chemise en demi-maroquin vert à petits recouvrements et étui Georges Cretté.ÉDITION ORIGINALE & PREMIER TIRAGE.36 eaux-fortes par André DUNOYER de SEGONZAC la moitié à pleine page dont un frontispice et un portrait de Colette.Tiré à 165 exemplaires sur hollande Van Gelder celui-ci n° 94.Dos de la chemise passé.Expert Emmanuel de BROGLIECabinet Revel57 rue de Verneuil - 75007 Paris33 01 42 22 17 13 Paris: Chez l'artiste, 1932 unknown
51-3634Paris: Editions Mornay 1919-1935. 8vo. 87 vols. a few duplicates. All numbered and some signed. Original wraps.MORNAY Éditions. Ensemble de 87 volumes illustrés. Paris Éditions Mornay 1919 à 1940. In-8 broché couverture illustrée.Important ensemble de 87 ouvrages d'Honoré de Balzac Colette Gustave Flaubert Anatole France Rudyard Kipling Pierre Loti Octave Mirbeau Henri de Régnier ou encore Jules Vallès tous illustrés par George Barbier Carlègle Deluermoz Pierre Falké Louis Jou Mathurin Méheut Jean Lébédeff ou Gaston Nick à travers différentes techniques comme le bois gravé en noir ou l'aquarelle au pochoir.Répartis en deux collections intitulées Les Beaux livres et La Collection originale la centaine de titres publiés par Georges et Antoinette Mornay devaient paraître en un nombre prédéterminé d’ouvrages cinq par an et en quantité limitée. Le tirage justifié était environ de 1 000 exemplaires sur japon ou vélin de Rives.Certains volumes contiennent un envoi autographe signé de l'illustrateur.Liste détaillée : -ANNUNZIO G. d'. Triomphe de la mort. 1923.-BALZAC Honoré de. César Birotteau. 1929. X2-BALZAC Honoré de. Le Père Goriot. 1933.-BÉRAUD Henri. Le Vitriol de Lune. 1931. -BOYLESVE René. La Leçon d’amour dans un parc. 1929.-BOYLESVE René. Les Nouvelles leçons d’amour dans un parc. 1930. x2-BRAZ Le Anatole. Le Gardien de feu. 1923. -CHADOURNE Louis. Le Pot au noir. Scènes et figures des Tropiques. 1922. -CHATEAUBRIANT Alphonse de. Monsieur des Lourdines. 1925.-CHÉRAU Gaston. Valentine Pacquault. 1927.-COLETTE. L’Entrave. 1929.-CONSTANTIN-WEYER Maurice. Clairière. 1929.-CRÉBILLON fils. Le Sopha. 1933.-CURWOOD James Oliver. Nomades du Nord. 1932. -DEVAL Jacques. Marie Galante. 1935. -DOFF Néel. Jours de famine et de détresse. 1927.-DUHAMEL Georges. Vie des martyrs 1914-1916. 1919.-DUNAN Renée. Le Prix Lacombyne. 1924. X2 -FARRÈRE Claude. La Bataille. 1926.-FARRÈRE Claude. Les Civilisés. 1931. X2-FARRÈRE Claude. Thomas l’Agnelet Gentilhomme de fortune. 1928.-FLAUBERT Gustave. Madame Bovary. 1930. -FRANCE Anatole. Crainquebille. Putois riquet et plusieurs autres récits profitables. 1922. X3-FRANCE Anatole. La Révolte des anges. 1921. -FRANCE Anatole. La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque. 1920.-FRANCE Anatole. Le Comte Morin député. 1921 joints spécimen et suites-FRANCE Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard membre de l’Institut. 1923. -FRANCE Anatole. Les Opinions de Monsieur Jérome Coignard. 1924.-FRANCE Anatole. Les Sept femmes de la Barbe Bleue et autres contes merveilleux. 1925.-GORKY Maxime. Les Vagabonds. 1921. X2-ISTRATI Panaït. Tsatsa Minnka. 1931.-KIPLING Rudyard. Le Livre de la jungle. 1930. X2-KIPLING Rudyard. Le Second livre de la jungle. 1930 X2-KIPLING Rudyard. Les Bâtisseurs de ponts. 1935. X2 -LEMONNIER Camille. Au cœur frais de la forêt. 1922.-LORRAIN Jean. Monsieur de Phocas. Astarté. 1922. X2-LOTI Pierre. Mon frère Yves. 1928. X2-LOUŸS Pierre. Psyché. 1935. X2-MAUROIS André. Ariel ou la vie de Shelley. 1932. X2-MIRBEAU Octave. Le Calvaire. 1928.-MIRBEAU Octave. Le Jardin des supplices. 1923. X2-MIRBEAU Octave. Le Journal d’une femme de chambre. 1932. -MIRBEAU Octave. Sébastien Roch. 1926. -MONTHERLANT Henry de. Les Bestiaires. 1926. X3-MONTFORT Eugène. Un Cœur vierge. 1926.-PERGAUD Louis. De goupil à Margot. 1925. -PERGAUD Louis. Le Roman de Miraut chien de chasse. 1928.-PERGAUD Louis. La Guerre des boutons. 1927.-PHILIPPE Charles-Louis. Marie Donadieu. 1921.-RACHILDE. Portrait d’hommes. 1929. -RÉGNIER Henri de. L’Escapade. 1931. X2-RÉGNIER Henri de. Les Rencontres de Monsieur de Bréot. 1930.-ROLLAND Romain. Colas Breugnon. 1927. -ROUQUETTE Louis-Frédéric. L’Ile d’enfer. 1924.-SAVIGNON André. Filles de la pluie. 1934.-SUDERMANN Hermann. Le Chemin des chats. 1924-TILLIER Claude. Belle-plante et cornelius. 1921.-THARAUD Jérome et Jean. Dingley l’illustre écrivain. 1920. -THARAUD Jérôme et Jean. L’Ombre de la croix. 1932. X2-VALLÈS Jules. Le Bachelier. 1921. -VALLÈS Jules. L’Enfant. 1920.-VALLÈS Jules. Les Réfractaires. 1930. X2 -VALLÈS Jules. L’Insurgé. 1923. -WILDE Oscar. Le Portrait de Dorian Gray. 1920.-WHITE Stewart Edward. Terres de silence. 1922.-ZOLA Émile. La Bête humaine. 1924. -ZOLA Émile. La Faute de l’abbé Mouret. 1922. Tout commence en 1919 pour beaucoup la révolution apportée par les Editions MORNAY fut l'utilisation systématique de l'illustration pour les ouvrages édités par cette maison.Il faut savoir que jusqu'alors l'illustration était réservée aux editions dites "de Luxe" qualificatif qui indiquait à la fois un soin tout particulier apporté à l'édition à la composition mais aussi un prix élevé qui ne permettait pas à tous d'acquerir ces ouvrages et les réservés ainsi aux classes les plus aisées de la société.En ce début de XXeme siécle un certain nombre de maison d'édition se lancérent sur le créneau de ce que l'on appela le livre de "demi-luxe" eut égard aux prix plus modéré pratiqué pour ces ouvrages. Ouvrages qui pour autant permettaient de découvrir des auteurs de tout premier ordre et étaient imprimé avec une attention toute particuliére sur des velins de qualité. Pour autant les illustrations n'étaient qu'exception dans ce genre d'edition.Antoinette et Georges MORNAY ont pensés une organisation qui allait bien au-delà de ce "coté visible de l'iceberg" que fut le recours permanent aux illustrateurs. Leur concept de maison d'edition etait global et trés "marketing" dirions nous aujourd'hui :- Prix de vente trés bas augmentant néanmoins au fil des années avec le succés mais qui n'acceptait aucun compris tant sur la qualité de l'impression papier gravure etc. que sur le choix des auteurs et des illustrateurs .- Création d'un Service de Presse qui par les livres offert aux journalistes donna aux Editions MORNAY une publicité non négligeable.- Campagne de publicité pouvant être de grande envergure Article de Maurice CONSTANTIN-MEYER sur Maria Chapdelaine dans l'Illustration de NOEL 1931De tout cela il nous reste aujourd'hui un formidable ensemble de textes et d'auteurs comprenant 112 ouvrages edités de 1919 à 1935 qui retrace l'évolutions de ces editions du livre illustré moderne : des bois gravé en noir jusqu'aux aquarelles au pochoir. Paris: Editions Mornay, 1919-1935. paperback
190777332s. l. Paris 1907. Fine. Colette the ""nude dancer"" in her stage costume s. l. Paris s. d. 1907 28.70 x 20.40 cm une photographie contrecollée sur carton Rare and superb original contemporary mounted albumen print showing Colette languidly stretched out on a lion skin and covered with a leopard skin. Photographer's penciled number and studio stamp on the back of the mount. A substantially cropped print bearing the same penciled number on the back of our photograph 11214 is in the Reutlinger archives at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Album Reutlinger de portraits divers vol. 53 p.3. We have been unable to find any other examples of this photograph in other public collections. A similar photograph belatedly dedicated to Maurice Chevalier went on sale in 2008. A beautiful sultry shot of Colette probably taken the year of her banned dance show ""Rêve d'Egypte"" at the Moulin Rouge where she shared the bill and a scandalous kiss with her cross-dressing aristocrat lover Missy. ""Colette was a nude dancer which at the time meant that she . draped herself in vaporous veils concealing part of her anatomy under animal skins"" Paula Dumont. Colette had already used animal skins hugging her figure in this picture as a sensual costume in Charles Van Lerberghe's Pan accompanied on stage by Lugné-Poe and Georges Wague. This was the first time anyone had dared to go without a flesh-colored body suit. Justifying her choice she went on to say: ""I want to dance naked if the body suit bothers me and humiliates my plasticity"". At the time of this photograph in 1907 Colette was performing in countless shows following her debut two years earlier in Nathalie Clifford Barney's Sapphic Salon where Mata Hari also danced. For Colette dance was synonymous with emancipation in more ways than one - as a means of sustenance and liberation of her body which finally belonged to her after her separation from her abusive husband Willy in 1906. Her undulating almost gestureless dance was linked by contemporary critics to that of Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan; her greatest success remained ""La Chair"" a risqué mime show she performed two hundred times in Paris and was subsequently produced with a new cast in New York's Manhattan Opera House. It was also in the halls of Parisian dance venues that Colette flaunted herself freely on the arm of her lovers. Her scandalous union with Missy the virile Marquise de Morny who accompanied her on stage in male costumes contributed to the fame of her performances. This is probably the rarest photograph of Colette taken by Reutlinger who also photographed her draped in Grecian style or wearing her costume from ""Le Rêve d'Egypte"". A rare visual testimony to a revolution in dance costume brought about by Colette a key figure in twentieth-century artistic and literary Paris. unknown
193239127Paris: Chez l'Artiste 1932. André Dunoyer de Segonzac. ANDRE DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC'S UNIQUE PROOF SET OF THE ELEVEN "PLANCHES REFUSEES" FOR COLETTE'S "LA TREILLE MUSCATE" WITH EACH ETCHING PRINTED ON FINE JAPANESE PAPER AND SIGNED AND TITLED BY THE ARTIST. Cailler 632-642 obviously didn't know about this set and thus does not give the titles of these etchings except "La cure de soleil" which is titled in the plate WHICH UNTIL NOW HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY UNKNOWN. The 20 first copies of "La treille muscate" include unsigned and untitled sets of these planches refusées. Cailler 642 annotated "épreuve d'essai sur Japon nacré sic--it is in fact on antique Japanese laid paper / suite de Colette / éditée". IN PERFECT CONDITION WITH NO DEFECTS. UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT. <br/><br/> Chez l'Artiste unknown
1959140944276Beirut: Al-Kutub 1959. First edition. First edition. Signed by Colette Khoury on the front free endpaper in green ink inscribed to previous owner. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. In Arabic. Very Good with cocked and creased spine light wear a few dog-eared pages. Scarce signed. <p>A pioneering feminist novel that caused a major scandal in the Arabic literary world for its taboo depictions of female sexuality and agency. Khoury is from a very prominent family the granddaughter of a former Syrian prime minister and this autobiographical novel was about her love affair with famous Syrian poet Nizar Quabbani. Al-Kutub unknown
193030584Paris.: La Societe Nouvelle des Editions d'Art Devambez. 1930. Original wrappers with vellum chemise and slipcase. 4to. With 26 original etchings by Chahine many full-page. Edition limited to 226 copies with this one of 10 copies printed entirely on japon nacre a la forme originally reserved for the artist and friends. It has all the etchings in three states including one state with remarques as well as four supplementary plates not published in the book also in three states. Also included is an original signed drawing by Chahine executed in blue pencil. La Societe Nouvelle des Editions d'Art Devambez. hardcover
51-7059Paris: Chez l'artiste 1932. 4to. 25.5 x 33cm. Original blank wraps repaired.Presented in a linen and goatskin slipcase by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. . Illustrée de 36 eaux-fortes originales par Dunoyer de Segonzac. Tirage à 150 ex. numérotés n°72. .References: Aimée Lioré & Pierre Cailler "Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé de Dunoyer de Segonzac. Tome III " nos. 596-631; Nicolas Rauch Les Peintres et le Livre Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1991 no. 120; Monod no. 3047; The Artist & The Book 1860-1960 no. 280. Expertise by Danyela PETITOT. Membre du Syndicat Français des Experts Professionnels. 40 Avenue de Ségur 75015 PARIS Paris: Chez l'artiste, 1932 paperback
192060344Paris 1920. Bound uncut with the original printed wrappers also the backstrip in a magnificent bright purple lambskin binding with title and author in bright metallic lettering to spine blue pink and green respectively. Triple bright metallic line-borders to boards same three colours inside which the remainder of the boards are covered with a large inlay of shiny coloured leather in crocodile skin-like relief pattern. Recto and verso respectively of flyleaves covered with pink/purple suede. Housed in a chemise with purple lambskin spine with same lettering as the binding and purple cloth boards inside grey suede and purple full lambskin slipcase. The binding is signed Leroux in shiny green lettering to inside of front board. A handwriiten postcard from Leroux to the previous owner of the book is enclosed. The postcard is dated 1997 and concerns the binding including the price. The slipcase has a bit of edgewear but the binding is near mint. Apert from a tiny tear no loss to the upper margin of the front wrapper also internally near mint. Front free end-paper with a four-line inscription for "René Baer" signed "Colette de Jouvenel". <br/><br/><em>First edition - presentation-copy and one of 175 numbered copies on Hollande premier papier out of a total of 725 numbered copies - of Colette's fascinating novel "Chéri" published at the dawn of the roaring 20'ies. The scandalous novel which portrays the love between an older woman and a much younger man is partly inspired by Colette's own life and is considered one of her very best works. Extremely controversial as a person Colette has always been the object of fascination as well as controversy. In 1893 she married Henry Gauthier-Villars who was already a famous author and publisher. He used the pen-name "Willy" under which Colette's famous first novels the Claudine-stories also appeared. Colette and Willy separated in 1906 with a final divorce in 1910. Colette is well known for the series of lesbian relationships she embarked upon after her separation. In 1912 however she married Henry de Jouvenel editor of Le Matin and took his name. Not for her publications but she clearly used it in her personal correspondence. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1924 however due partly to her affair with her 16-year-old stepson Bertrand de Jouvenel. Chéri is partly based upon her experiences with her much younger stepson. " 'Me a feminist' She scoffed in 1910. 'I'll tell you what the suffragettes deserve: the whip and the harem'. COLETTE is an intriguing and flamboyant figure. Born in Burgundy in 1873 she moved to Paris at the age of twenty with her husband the writer and critic Henry Gauthiers-Viller Willy. Forcing Colette to write Willy published her novels in his name and the Claudine series became an instant success. She escaped her exploitative first husband to live by her pen and work in music-halls as a dancer. Colette had a lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's she married three times had a baby at 40 and at 47 preferring 'passion to goodness' she seduced her teenage stepson. In the meantime she wrote stunning novels that were admired by Proust and Gide -- Gigi Sido Cheri and Break of Day. Colette lived to be over 80. She was the first woman President of the Academie Goncourt and was the first woman in France to be accorded a state funeral." "Colette in full Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette 1873 - 1954 outstanding French writer of the first half of the 20th century whose best novels largely concerned with the pains and pleasures of love are remarkable for their command of sensual description. Her greatest strength as a writer is an exact sensory evocation of sounds smells tastes textures and colours of her world. Her best work was produced after 1920 and followed two veins. The first vein followed the lives of the slightly depraved postwar younger generation. Among these novels are Chéri 1920 and La Fin de Chéri 1926; The Last of Chéri dealing with a liaison between a young man Chéri and an older woman. Encycl. Britt. René Baer 1887 - 1962 was a famous French author journalist playwright and songwriter. Georges Leroux 1922-1999 was one of the most accomplished and esteemed French binders of the twentieth century. Before he became a book binder in 1959 he was a poet. His works are known for their exotic materials use of metallic effects and strong polychromatic color. </em> hardcover
197986833Arts et Meteirs Graphiques. As New. 1979. Hardcover. 270040033X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 511 pages with many illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works Arts et Meteirs Graphiques hardcover
1904#17<p>Colette<br />Dialogues de bêtes<br />Paris Société du Mercure de France 1904.<br /><br />Square 12mo. Half red morocco with bands spine with raised bands highlighted with gilt and blind fillets. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers and spine preserved.<br /><br />First edition of the ordinary issue following only 19 copies on Holland paper.<br /><br />Copy enriched with a first autograph inscription signed in black ink on the first leaf traducted in English :<br /><br />"To Gaston Carraud<br />in friendly remembrance from<br />the author<br />Colette Willy."<br /><br />Followed by a second autograph inscription signed in blue ink on the same leaf:<br /><br />"To you now<br />dear Philippe Hériat<br />in memory of a cat and a dog<br />who have become ghosts<br />and of a young woman who has<br />become an old writer<br />Colette."<br /><br />An exceptional testimony to Colette's emancipation embodied in these two inscriptions separated by more than thirty years.<br /><br />Dialogues de bêtes is the first work by Colette to appear after the Claudine series published under the name of her husband Henri Gauthier-Villars. For the first time Colette allowed her own name to appear on the cover signing "Colette Willy."<br /><br />This text marks the beginning of her gradual literary emancipation although it is preceded by the dedication "Pour amuser Willy." In Mes Apprentissages 1936 she would write: "I was vaguely awakening to a duty toward myself—to write something other than the Claudine books. And drop by drop I exuded the Dialogues de bêtes."<br /><br />The 1904 first edition contains four dialogues to which eight more were added in 1905 and 1930 forming the definitive edition. The anthropomorphic characters Toby-Chien and Kiki-la-Doucette were warmly received and remain among the most emblematic features of her work.<br /><br />The particular value of this copy lies in the author's double inscription. Everything contributes to making it a singular witness to Colette's emancipation beginning with the recipients themselves.<br /><br />The first inscription is addressed to Gaston Carraud a composer and mutual acquaintance of the Gauthier-Villars couple while the second is addressed to Philippe Hériat whom Colette likely met in the 1930s when he played a role in Divine 1935 a film whose screenplay and dialogue were written by Colette after L'Envers du music-hall.<br /><br />The signatures themselves are also significant: the first inscription is signed "Colette Willy" a form the author used more or less regularly until 1923 after which she signed only her own name as seen in the second inscription.<br /><br />Even the ink used offers a subtle echo: first black ink then blue—this blue so dear to Colette the blue of Le Fanal bleu which appeared even in her inkwell and on her writing paper.<br /><br />The inscriptions are dated in pencil likely in Philippe Hériat's hand "1904" and "1938."<br /><br />An entire writer's life separates these two inscriptions by Colette in the same copy.</p> Mercure de France
191382308Paris: Lib. des lettres 1913. Fine. Lib. des lettres Paris 1913 16.50 x 25.50 cm relié First edition one of 20 numbered copies on Arches paper reserved for the society of bibliophiles of ""XX"" deluxe copies with 10 copies on Van Gelder reimposed. Full red morocco binding spine with five raised bands with a minor insignificant nick in the middle date at tail gilt roulettes on headcaps double gilt fillets on edges frame of gilt fillet on khaki morocco endpapers red silk doublure original covers and spine preserved top edge gilt slipcase bordered with red morocco with beige felt interior very elegant binding signed by Canape. Autograph signature of the author on the justification page. Bookplate pasted on verso of first silk endpaper. Very handsome copy superbly bound in a doublure binding signed by Canape. Lib. des lettres hardcover
98001Paris Éditions Excelsior 1926. . Limited edition number 307 of 425 numbered copies; 4to; 20 colour plates by Icart and a facsimile letter by Colette on blue paper tipped-in opposite the limitation page text in French near-contemporary binding by A. Szekely in half morocco over marbled boards gilt marbled endpapers and top edge gilt a little rubbed at extremities otherwise very good. <br /> <br /> Paris, Éditions Excelsior, 1926. hardcover
192265991Paris: Edition d'art Edouard Pelletan 1922. Fine. Edition d'art Edouard Pelletan Paris 1922 21 x 29 cm relié First edition illustrated with 12 original color lithographs by Charles Guérin one of 35 numbered copies on Japan paper à la forme deluxe issue. Full purple morocco binding smooth spine decorated with geometric and floral mosaic morocco pieces in purple old rose and red gilt roulettes on headcaps quadruple gilt fillets framing the boards enhanced with geometric and floral mosaic morocco pieces in brown purple pink and green mauve watered silk endpapers and pastedowns double gilt fillets framing the pastedowns enhanced with a purple morocco fillet and pink mosaic morocco pieces forming three small flowers gilt fillets on leading edges covers and spine preserved top edge gilt contemporary binding signed Simon Kra. Our copy is accompanied by two duplicate suites one of the color lithographs on China paper the other breaking down each of these lithographs into color passages 3 or 4 depending on the images. Very rare and beautiful copy perfectly bound in full morocco signed Simon Kra. Edition d'art Edouard Pelletan hardcover
1933183821Paris: Bernard Grasset 1933. Luxuriously printed First edition number 2 of 10 copies printed on japon one of the two most exclusive formats the other being ten copies on Montval paper; the total edition was 2469. Colette was a noted cat lover and may have based the titular cat on one of her own. This psychological novel depicts a young couple whose marriage falters under the preference of the husband for their pet. The first English translation was published in the US in 1936 by Farrar & Rinehart. Octavo 189 x 135 mm. Contemporary blue quarter morocco by Sunoz Rel spine lettered in gilt blue marbled sides and endpapers top edge gilt margins alternatively and decoratively shaven without loss red white and yellow cloth bookmarker. Original spine wrapper bound in at rear. Minor rubbing to edges. A near-fine copy. Norell 0272. hardcover
1979C86833Arts et Meteirs Graphiques. As New. 1979. Hardcover. 270040033X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 511 pages with many illustrations. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Arts et Meteirs Graphiques hardcover
191329818Paris: Flammarion 1913. Fine. Flammarion Paris s. d. 1913 12 x 19 cm relié Flammarion Paris 1913 12 x 19 cm bound in morocco First edition an advance service de presse copy. Half cherry-red morocco over marbled paper boards by Goy & Vilaine spine in six compartments marbled pastedowns and endpapers covers slightly wormed spine sunned preserved top edge gilt. Endpapers and half-title faded a few small marginal spots. Important inscription from Colette to Viscountess Jeanne de Bellune: « Affectueux souvenir de sa vieille amie » affectionate remembrance from her old friend. The Viscountess of Juromenha this end of century darling was the lover of several intellectual female figures in the early 20th century such as Renée Vivien and Liane de Pougy who described her as little gnome. There remains no image of this most comical lesbianJacques Ars in public collections and the only portrait we know of is that sketched by Natalie Clifford Barney that of a drunkard with a red face and no beauty. A handsome copy in a nice binding with an exceptional provenance. Flammarion hardcover
199593564Editions Monelle Hayat. New. 1995. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 352 pages; 1400 illustrations including 130 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Editions Monelle Hayat paperback
191321235391913. Paris: Librairie des Lettres. 1913. 8vo. Original cream wrappers printed in grey and red uncut preserved in a modern cloth slipcase; pp. iv 307 1 blank; book and inkwell device to upper wrapper and title; a few light stains to upper wrapper short tear to head of upper joint neatly repaired hinges reinforced; uniform light toning light marginal dampstaining mostly at the beginning small hole repaired and traces of adhesive to inner margin of front free endpaper and half-title; overall a remarkably good copy; presentation inscription to half-title in ink: 'A Georges Abric en temoignage d'une grande sympathie Colette de Jouvenel' see below.First edition in book form particularly rare in the original wrappers inscribed by Colette to one of the witnesses at her second wedding.Originally serialised in La Vie Parisienne L'Entrave The Shackle is the sequel to La Vagabonde 1910. Reflecting Colette's own life however the tone of the two novels differs markedly: if La Vagabonde celebrates independence and self-discovery L'Entrave turns inward exploring the ambivalence and quiet disillusion that come with love's constraints. In the intervening years Colette at the time of publication married to Henri Gauthier-Villars better known by his pen name Willy had married the journalist and diplomat Henry de Jouvenel 1876-1935 and given birth to their daughter Colette de Jouvenel 1913-1981. She recalled with characteristic humour in L'Etoile Vesper the double strain of childbearing and serial publication: 'The child and the novel were racing me and La Vie Parisienne which was publishing my unfinished novel in instalments was gaining ground. The child announced that it would arrive first and I screwed the cap back onto my pen'. Colette and de Jouvenel divorced in 1924 after she became romantically involved with his son their affair inspiring her the characters of Phil and Mme Dalleray in Le Ble en herbe 1923.In later years Colette was unsparing in her assessment of L'Entrave criticising its 'narrow ending' 'diminished heroes' and 'blessing tone'.Provenance: From the library of Georges Abric editor-in-chief of Le Matin and a close friend of Henry de Jouvenel. Together with Leon Hamel and Jean Sapene Abric was one of the witnesses temoins at the wedding of Colette and Jouvenal on 19 December 1912.See La Societe des amis de Colette online. hardcover
192712382Paris: Les Arts et le livre 1927. No. 8 of 40 copies printed on Annam paper a kind of japon of a total edition of 590. Illustrated with 50 drawings reproduced in the text and 7 original lithographs by Jean Pavie. This copy is unique with 4 original drawings for the book bound in and with guide sheets showing measurements and orientation in the text. 8vo. bound by Geneviève de Léotard in 1928 signed on the upper turn-in in full brown morocco with mosaic design at the bottom of the upper cover reflected at the top of the lower side and on the spine of triangular tooth like pattern of onlaid chestnut brown and light brown with six gilt and black fillets following the triangular pattern spine lettered in gilt turn-ins with four gilt and blind fillets highlighted in black with an inner border of purple morocco and a strip of chestnut and brown calf at the bottom and top edges of the upper and lower turn-ins respectively rich brown watered silk doublures with an inner marbled flyleaves of delicious browns gold and palladian all edges gilt. Housed in the original matching brown morocco edges slipcase covered in the marbled paper seen on the endpapers. Spine with some wear adn rubbing.Geneviève de Léotard 1899 was a precocious book artist. She began studying bookbinding at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1912 when she was only 12 with an emphasis on gilding. On graduation she worked with Pierre Legrain as did many of the great women binders becoming an independent binder in 1925. In 1927 she won the Prix Blumenthal and then became a teacher at her alma mater teaching many of the next generation of binders including probably Lucette Levy whose bindings are shown in this catalogue. De Leotard was adventurous and rather avant-garde in her choice of materials often mixing different skins and shades with perfect subtlety and her strong linear geometric style. Her graphic style was very crisp and her immaculate gilding and design skills were much appreciated by the bibliophiles of her time.Duncan and Bartha: Art nouveau and art deco bookbinding With original drawings by Jean Pavie bound into an Art Deco binding by Geneviève De Léotard Les Arts et le livre unknown
2003102956AYA. New. 2003. Paperback. 2907179306 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 203 pages; 911 paintings covered in this publication 269 illustrations including some images in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee AYA paperback
1988102558Society. New. 1988. Paperback. 2950328903 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 114 pages; illustrated. Gravé Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Society paperback
191329820Paris: Librairie des lettres 1913. Fine. From One Amazon to Another Librairie des lettres Paris 1913 12 x 19 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Significant presentation inscription from Colette to the Vicomtesse Jeanne de Bellune "". à Jeannot de Bellune / affectueux souvenir de son amie."" Spine very slightly faded a few unobtrusive pale spots on the boards. Colette and Jeanne de Bellune probably met in 1905 at the Villa d'Eylau where the Victor-Hugo Circle or ""Cercle des arts et de la mode"" convened on the occasion of which the review Le Damier was produced. If ""Jeannot"" recurs throughout the correspondence of the Burgundian writer very little is actually known about her. Vicomtesse de Juromenha this fin-de-siècle courtesan was the lover of numerous intellectual women of the early 20th century such as Renée Vivien or Liane de Pougy who described her as a ""petit gnome."" No likeness of this ""lesbienne des plus cocasses"" Jacques Ars has survived in public collections and the only portrait known is the one sketched by Natalie Clifford-Barney that of an ""ivrognesse au visage rouge et sans beauté."" Books inscribed to her remain precious testimonies of women's sapphic emancipation at the dawn of the 20th century. Librairie des lettres hardcover
192719102AB1927. Paris Draeger 1927. 275 : 22 cm. 8 leaves with the text of Colette 6 plates by Jean Dupas 1 mounted plate. Original cloth original black wrappers illustrated in silver and red bound in. Excellent copy of the album Toi founded by Maison Les Fourrures Max and illustrated by Jean Dupas for the poems of Colette. One of the most beautiful catalogues created in art-déco."Ce bel étui noir onré de fleurs rouges et argent contient de superbes planches en camaieu gris et noir. La provocation des nus féminins que Jean Dupas a drapé des fourrures de la novelle collection est atténué par leur hiératisme de statue" in 'Arts et Métiers Graphiques' No.1 1927 - Bibliothèque Exposition Forney 1988. No.18. Jean Dupas Bordeaux 1882 - 1964 Grand Prix de Rome of painting in 1910 lead this album to the summit of publicity. - Some text-pages verso with mist of stains otherwise a superb copy of this mark stone of art deco. hardcover
1995C93564Editions Monelle Hayat. As New. 1995. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 352 pages; 1400 illustrations including 130 in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . Editions Monelle Hayat paperback
