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Chopin ou le Poete. Illustre de nombreuses photographies d'apres les documents de l'epoque. THE MAXWELL-SCOTT COPY IN QUARTER MOROCCO
19297997Librairie Gallimard Paris 1929. Roy. 8vo. First Edition with half-title 'La Vie de Chopin' with 42 fine plates the majority portraits on 39 one leaf pp. 137-138 with small marginal repair not affecting text; handsomely bound in contemporary marbled boards green morocco back with five raised bands second and fifth compartments lettered in gilt gilt top uncut marbled endpapers sewn silk head- and tail-bands silk marker original pictorial wrappers in red and black preserved backstrip lightly scuffed on lower panel corners lightly chafed else a splendid near fine copy in most attractive period binding. EDITION LIMITED TO AN UNSPECIFIED TOTAL OF INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON ALFA THIS COPY No. 139. Published as no. 5 in Gallimard's famous series 'Galerie Pittoresque'. THE MAXWELL-SCOTT COPY WITH THE ORNATE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF MARIE LOUISE LADY MAXWELL-SCOTT ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN AND HER SMALLER CASTELLO DI ORVINIO BOOK-LABEL ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Librairie Gallimard, Paris, hardcover
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