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19312428Paris: Ambroise Vollard 1931. First edition. No. 217 of 240 copies on Rives paper of a total edition of 305. 13 original etchings by Pablo Picasso and 67 wood engravings after drawings by the artist engraved by George Aubert. Bound in gray calf by Renée Haas and collaborators Renaud Vernier and Claude Ribal. Front and back covers with a black and gray inlaid checkerboard pattern with alternating gold squares mounted each cover with inlaid red line vertically zigzagging with white mirrored line throughout lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges gilt; red suede doublures gray suede endleaves; morocco-tipped slipcase with suede-lined chemise spine mirroring volume spine text. Original wrappers bound in. An excellent copy. <br /> <br /> The binding dated 2008 is the work of three hands: the designer Renée Haas and Renaud Vernier and Claude Ribal executors of the binding. According to the Pierre Bergé catalogue description of the binding on Matisse's Jazz executed by the same trio in 1983 "Renée Haas reserved her talents only for a few lucky collectors hence the rarity of her bindings on the market today."<br /> <br /> In 1926 Ambroise Vollard commissioned illustrations from Picasso for The Unknown Masterpiece a formidable Balzacian reflection on pictorial creation in which his "text declares his aesthetic faith in artists and their search for inspiration despite their struggles to reach their goals." Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era. And as Strachan notes "who better than Picasso could understand and convey the restlessness of an artist battling with the inexpressible" "The diversity yet harmony of Picasso's genius is represented here by the inclusion of both abstract and classical styles in a single volume. The wood-engravings reproduce Cubist figures still-lifes and the sparkling 'constellation drawings' of 1926 while the etchings are classical in character combining pure line with cross-hatching." Garvey The Artist and the Book One of the most important livres d'artistes of the twentieth century; as Chapon notes "un des ouvrages qui fait le plus honneur à Vollard reste Le Chef-d'oeuvre Inconnu."<br /> <br /> Goeppert-Cramer Picasso no. 20; Hyza et. al. Picasso et le livre d'artiste pp. 56-57 ; Garvey The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 no. 225; Garvey & Wick The Arts of the French Book 1900-1965 no. 18; Johnson Artists' Books in the Modern Era no. 54; Mellby Splendid Pages p. 209; Coron De Goya à Max Ernst pp. 255-262; From Manet to Hockney 92; Skira Anthologie du Livre Illustré par les Peintures et Sculpteurs 293; Strachan The Artist and the Book in France pp. 60-62 339; Chapon Le Peintre et le Livre pp. 57 74-78 281. Carteret Le trésor du bibliophile: livres illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945 vol. 4 p. 51. Ambroise Vollard unknown
19497577Paris: Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin 1949. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Slipcase. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Paul Jouve with 13 colored etchings 3 of which are double-page and a separate suite of the etchings in black and white. Text printed within red borders each page with Egyptian-themed headpiece heightened in brownish gold. A few tissueguards creased pale sporadic foxing else bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows minor shelf/edge wear else tight and clean. Case and boards in paper faux-snakeskin loose signatures tissueguards. fo. Illus. color and b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 98 of 123 110 10 3. Signed by Jouve and the publisher at the colophon. Maxime Cottet-Dumoulin hardcover
1935135186Paris: Louis Conard 1935. hardcover. fine. Huard Charles. In French.Texte revise et annote par Marcel Bouteron et Henri Longnon. Illustrated by Charles Huard. 38 out of 40 volumes 8vo 3/4 dark blue calf over blue marbled boards red leather labels gilt raised spines marbled endpapers top edges gilt with original stiff printed wrappers bound in. Paris: Louis Conard 1935. Fine.<br/> <br/> Louis Conard unknown
1905245007Boston: Little Brown 1905. hardcover. very good. Girardet Jules & Guyon Maximilienne. Centenary Edition. 34 volumes. Illustrations by Jules Girardet and Maximilienne Guyon with tissue guards. 8vo bound in 1/2 deep red morocco over marbled boards; gilt-stamped fruit tree motif along spines and dotted raised bands marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Boston: Little Brown 1905. Very good.<br/> <br/> A few spine ends are lightly rubbed but overall a very nice set.<br/> <br/> Little Brown unknown
192230919Paris: Rene Kieffer 1922. First Thus. Hardcover. near fine. Quint. Quint. First Thus. Hardcover. Kieffer René 1876-1963. Le Pere Goriot by Honoré de Balzac 1799-1851. Paris: Rene Kieffer 1922. 4to. 317pp. 1 of only 50 numbered copies in a total edition of 450. this being No 17 on Vélin de Cuve bound with an original aquarelle by Quint & an extra suite en bistre at the rear. 140 colour illustrations by Quint. In an exquisite Kieffer Binding. Full burgundy morocco with tan sand & mossy green onlay stamped in gilt at the spine & with ornate silver diamond burst "art déco" mosaic on both covers. Marbled endpapers gilt dentelles description inscribed by Kieffer. Kieffer ticket on the verso of the ffe. Original full page watercolour bound in before the title page. Top edge gilt others uncut. A very fine lovely example of one of Kieffer's elegant show bindings. Carteret Le trésor du bibliophile. Livres illustrés modernes 1875 à 1945: "A much sought after edition Rene Kieffer hardcover
1907313204London: Published by J.M. Dent and Co 1907. 38 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters red morocco t.e.g. Bookplate. About fine. 38 vols. 8vo. Ursule Mirouet 1895 La Grande Breteche and Other Stories 1896 The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau 1896 Beatrix 1896 The Chouans 1896 The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume I 1896 A Harlot's Progress Volume II 1896 The Peasantry 1896 The Country Parson 1896 Modeste Mignon 1896 Pierette and the Abbe Birotteau 1896 The Atheist's Mass and Other Stories 1896 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 1897 The Unconscious Mummers and Other Stories 1897 WITHOUT:About Catherine de Medici 1897 The Lily of the Valley 1897 A Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Brides 1897 The Seamy Side of History 1897 Lost Illusions 1897 A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories 1897 Cousin Pons 1897 Seraphita 1897 The Thirteen 1897 Parisians in the Country 1897 At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 1897 The Jealousies of a Country Town 1898 The Middle Classes 1898 The Member for Arcis 1898 A Father's Curse 1898 A Gondreville Mystery 1898 A Princess's Secrets 1898 The Country Doctor 1900 The Quest of the Absolute 1901 Old Goriot 1903 The Wild Ass's Skin 1903 A Bachelor's Establishment 1904 Eugenie Grandet 1905 A Woman of Thirty 1907. Bookseller Inventory # 101962. Published by J.M. Dent and Co unknown
190970972Paris: L. Carteret 1909. Fine. L. Carteret Paris 1909 17.50 x 27 cm relié Edition illustrated with 29 original compositions by François Schommer including the cover one of 75 deluxe numbered copies on Japan or Marais laid paper ours on Japan paper deluxe issue. Full blue morocco binding spine very lightly sunned with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt interlaced designs date and place gilt at foot gilt roulettes on headcaps wide frame of fifteen gilt fillets in interlaced pattern on boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns frame of gilt fillets in interlaced pattern on pastedowns double gilt fillets on edges covers preserved top and fore edges gilt engraved bookplate pasted on one pastedown elegant English binding very slightly later dated 1913 and signed Zaehnsdorf Hungarian binder established in London. Each illustration in double state in our copy was engraved with burin and etching by Léon Boisson. Handsome copy perfectly executed in a very slightly later English binding. L. Carteret hardcover
199710973New York New York U.S.A.: New Directions. New. 1997. Hardcover. 0811213595 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- with a bonus offer-- . New Directions hardcover
197638905New York New York U.S.A.: Viking Press. As New. 1976. Paperback. 0140442510 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE -- with a bonus offer-- . Viking Press paperback
1901875M26Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Company 1901. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The uniformly bound works of the notable French novelist and playwright Balzac in thirty-six volumes with two volumes of Droll Stories. Thirty-eight volumes in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Top edges gilt.Thirty-four volumes from No. 1212 of 1250 limited edition sets of the Connoisseur Edition de Luxe of the complete works of Honoré de Balzac two volumes 1 and 33 from No. 456 of this edition and two volumes of Droll Stories uniformly bound like the rest of this collection. Honoré de Balzac 1799-1850 was an influential French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine is generally viewed as his magnum opus and it is in this collection in its entirety.Thirty-three volumes are introduced by George Saintsbury two 33 and 34 are introduced by J. Walker McSpadden and Volume 36 is introduced by Paul Bourget. They are all translated from the original French by either Ellen Marriage Clara Bell R. S. Scott James Waring or J. Walker McSpadden.All volumes are illustrated with a frontispiece. All volumes are illustrated with a further three plates except for Volumes 2 9 16 and 21 which have four further plates and Volumes 33 34 and 35 which have one further plate and Volume 2 of Droll Stories which has two further plates. Collated complete.This selection comprises: 1: The Magic Skin and Other Stories; 2: The Quest of the Absolute and Other Stories; 3: About Catherine de Medici; 4: Seraphita; 5: Eugene Grandet and Other Stories; 6: Ursule Mirouet and Other Stories; 7: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket and Other Stories; 8: A Bachelor"s Establishment and Honorine; 9: A Daughter of Eve and Letters of Two Brides; 10: A Woman of Thirty and Other Stories; 11: A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories; 12: Modeste Mignon and Other Stories; 13: Beatrix; 14: The Jealousies of a Country Town and The Commission in Lunacy; 15: Lost Illusions; 16: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris; 17: The Lily of the Valley and the Firm of Nucingen; 18: The Country Doctor and Other Stories; 19: The Country Parson and Albert Savarus; 20: The Peasantry; 21: Cousin Betty; 22: Cousin Pons; 23: Scenes from a Courtesan"s Life: Part First; 24: Scenes from a Courtesan"s Life: Part Second; 25: The Thirteen; 26: Father Goriot and Other Stories; 27: The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau and the Secrets of a Princess; 28: The Middle Classes; 29: The Chouans: A Passion in the Desert; 30: The Gondreville Mystery and the Muse of the Department; 31: The Member for Arcis; 33: Physiology of Marriage; 32: The Seamy Side of History and Other Stories; 34: The Dramas; 35: The Dramas; 36: Repertory of the Comedie Humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe; and two volumes of Droll Stories. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally fairly smart with a little shelf wear to the extremities. Sunned to spine labels. Mark to the spine label and front board of Volume 8 and 27. Marks to the front board of Volume 3 6 9 15 18 and 28. A couple of indentations to the rear board of Volume 18. Marks to the spine of Volume 13. Mark to the spine label and rear board of Volume 14. Small losses to spine labels of Volumes 24 27 and 34. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age toned and roughly cut but clean. Very Good Avil Publishing Company hardcover
2000SONG1846378036Echo Library 30/10/2000. paperback. Used: Good. 6.00x0.23x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Echo Library paperback
19230036127Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile G. & R. Briffaut 1923. First Thus. Hardcover Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 31cm x 21.5cm. vi 84 pages 1 original drawing 13 black and white etchings 13 black and white etchings with remarques 13 colour etchings with remarques. Full purple leather 5 raised bands gilt lettering blind rule top edge gilt gilt dentelles silk doublures marbled endpapers marbled papered slipcase with leather edges. Text is in French. The Girl with the Golden Eyes. An aristocratic libertine becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman and sets about seducing her. Alas his conquest uncovers a hidden lesbian relationship and he finds himself entangled in a web of erotic obsession and fatal jealousy. First published in 1835 this is the first edition with illustrations by Almery Lobel-Riche. One of 40 numbered copies on Japanese paper with the etchings in 3 states and an original drawing by Lobel-Riche from a total edition of 500. This copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet. Text is in French. Minor discolouration to spine. Very minor shelf wear to slipcase. Category: Fiction; Fine Bindings; Foreign Language::French; LGBTIQ Lesbian Fiction; French Language; Sexuality - Erotic Fiction. Inventory No: 0036127. BZDB407 Fiction; Fine Bindings; Foreign Language::French; LGBTIQ Lesbian Fiction; French Language; Sexuality - Erotic Fiction. Unbranded Honore de Balzac; Almery Lobel-Riche La Fille aux Yeux d'Or Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut hardcover
190380262Paris: Librairie Illustrée Tallandier - Editeur s.d. 1903-1904. In-8 mm. 247x157 2 volumi mz. marocchino con angoli dorso a cordoni con titolo oro conserv. le belle brossure originale a colori pp. 8III3964; 43784; con le straordinarie composizioni di Robida 102 sono a p. pag. e 8 a colori che illustrano questa raccolta di 30 racconti licenziosi di Balzac. "Prima edizione" in una speciale tiratura di 25 esemplari numerati sur papier de Chine con aggiunto un magnifico acquarello originale dell'artista che porta il titolo manoscritto del racconto L'héritier du diable cui si riferisce. Una delle più rare opere illustrate da Robida 1848-1926: peintre graveur illustrateur caricaturiste dessinateur de talent qui était aussi un érudit.Cfr. LorenzXVIII p. 88 - Brun Robida sa vie son oeuvre1.061 da' come data di pubblicazione il 1905 - BenezitXI p. 776.Esemplare d'amatore molto ben conservato. Librairie Illustrée Tallandier - Editeur, unknown
1912233624Paris: Louis Conard 1912. Rilegato mezza pelle half-leather binding. Molto buono Very Good. Texte revisé"; et annoté par Marcel Bouteron et Henri Longnon. Illustrations de Charles Huard gravées sur bois par Pierre Gusman. <strong>Opera in 39 volumi</strong>: <strong>La Comédie Humaine 33 Volumes</strong> Etudes de Moeurs Scènes de la Vie Privée. I : La Maison du chat-qui-pelote. Le Bal de Sceaux. Mémoires de deux jeunes mariés La Bours ; II : Modeste Mignon. Un début dans la Vie ; III : Albert Savarus. La Vendetta. Une Double Famille. La Paix du Ménage. Madame Firmiani. Etude de Femme ; IV : La fausse maîtresse. Une Fille d'Eve. Le message. La Grenadière. La femme abandonnée. Honorine ; V : Béatrix. Gobseck ; VI : La femme de trente ans. Le père Goriot ; VII : Le colonel Chabert. La messe de l'athée. L'interdiction. Le contrat de mariage. Autre Etude de femme ; Etudes de moeurs. Scènes de la Vie de Province VIII : Ursule Mirouët. Eugénie Grandet ; IX : Les Célibataires. Pierrette. le Curé de Tours. La Rabouilleuse ; X : L'Illustre Gaudissart. La muse du département. La Vieille Fille ; XI : Le Cabinet des Antiques. Illusions perdues : Les Deux poëtes ; XII : Illusions perdues : Un grand homme de Province à Paris. Les Souffrances de l'Inventeur ; XIII : Scènes de la Vie Parisienne : Histoire des Treize. Ferragus. La Duchesse de Langeais. La fille aux yeux d'or ; XIV : Grandeur et décadence de César Birotteau. La maison Nuncingen ; XV : Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes I ; XVI : Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes II Les secrets de la Princesse de Cardigan. Facino Cane. Sarrasine. Pierre Grassou ; XVII : La Cousine Bette ; XVIII : Le Cousin Pons. Un prince de la Bohême. Un homme d'affaires ; XIX : Gaudissart II. Les comédiens sans le savoir ; XX : Les petits bourgeois. L'envers de l'histoire contemporaine ; XXI : Scènes de la vie politique. Un Episode sous la Terreur. Une ténébreuse affaire. Le député d'Arcis. Z. Marcas ; XXII : Scènes de la Vie Militaire : Les Chouans. Une Passions dans le Désert ; XXIII : Scènes de la Vie de Campagne : Les Paysans ; XXIV : Le médecin de campagne ; XXV : Le curé de village ; XXVI : Le Lys dans la vallée ; XXVII : Etudes philosophiques : La peau de chagrin. Jésus-Christ en Flandre. Melmoth réconcilié. Massimila Doni ; XXVIII : Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu. Gambara. La recherche de l'absolu. L'enfant maudit ; XXIX : Adieu. Les Marana. Le réquisitionnaire. El Verdugo. Un drame au bord de la mer. Maître Cornélius. L'auberge rouge ; XXX : Sur Catherine de Medicis. L'élixir de longue vie ; XXXI : Les proscrits. Louis Lambert. Séraphita ; XXXII : Etudes analytiques : Physiologie du mariage ou méditation de philosophie éclectique sur le bonheur et le malheur conjugal ; XXXIII : Petites misères de la vie conjugale ; XXXIV :<strong> Théâtre I </strong>: Vautrin. Les ressources de Quinola. Paméla Giraud ; XXXV : <strong>Théâtre II</strong> : La Marâtre. Le faiseur. L'Ecole des Ménages ; <strong>XXXVI : Contes drôlatiques I</strong> : Premier et deuxième dixain ; <strong>XXXVII : Contes drôlatiques II</strong> : Troisième dixain. Fragments inédits ; <strong>XXXVIII : Oeuvres diverses I </strong>: 1824-1830 ;<strong> XXXIX : Oeuvres diverses II</strong> : 1830-1835 ;" . 8vo. pp. circa 500 per volume. Molto buono Very Good. . Louis Conard, hardcover
1923840T70Paris: Marcel Bourteron 1923-1928. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A limited copy of the first edition of these volumes containing previously unpublished works by Balzac. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies on laid paper. Signed to justify. With the original slip cases. French language. Set of eight volumes with soft cover and individual slip cases. Works by Honoré de Balzac a French novelist playwright and one of the founders of Realism in European Literature. Volume One: unpublished correspondence between Honoré de Balzac and Lieutenant-Colonel L.-N. Periolas. With four plates including a portrait. Volume Two: La Gina's fantasies by Honoré de Balzac. Unpublished news. With eight plates. Volume Three: Letters from women addressed to Honoré de Balzac. First series 1832-1836. With four plates. Volume Four: The Hundred Funny Tales. Brought to light by the Sieur de Balzac. Fourth ten. Unpublished fragments. With four plates. Volume Five: Letters from women addressed to Honoré de Balzac. Second series 1837-1840. With seven plates. Volume Six: Unpublished correspondence between Honoré de Balzac and the Duchess of Castries 1831-1848. With six plates. Volume Seven: Letter on Kiew by Honoré de Balzac. Unpublished fragment. Adorned with seven plates. Volume Eight: Unpublished correspondence between Honoré de Balzac and Doctor Nacquart. Collated complete. In the original brown laid paper binding. Each volume has its own brown card slip case. Externally each volume is very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Volume One: slip case disbound. Front board has separated with loss of top and rear seam. Volume Two: slip case disbound. Separate front and rear boards only. Volumes Three to Five: slip case very smart with the odd mark to the board and light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with age toning to the edges. Volumes Five Six and Eight have some text block unopened. Very Good Marcel Bourteron paperback
1915933Z21London: The Home Library Book Co c1915. Cloth. Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". W. Boucher. A twenty volume collection of the literary works of the noted French novelist Honore de Balzac with etchings by W. Boucher. Illustrated with monochrome frontispieces to all and three plates to all volumes engraved by W. Boucher D Murray Smith and others. Collated complete. This set includes; 'Lost Illusions' 'The Atheist's Mass' 'The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau' 'About Catherine De Medici' 'Cousin Betty' 'Eugenie Grandet' 'The Wild Ass's Skin' 'The Unknown Masterpiece' 'The Quest of the Absolute' 'The Chouans' 'The Lily of the Valley' 'The Unconscious Mummers' 'Modeste Mignon' 'Cousin Pons' 'Pierrette And The Abbe Birotteau' 'A Daughter of Eve' 'Old Goriot' 'La Grande Breteche and Other Stories' 'The Country Doctor' and 'Ursule Mirouet'. This set features a collection of works by the French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac. The works have been translated from the original French to English. Undated dated by copies held on Jisc. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally excellent with only very slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with occasional light spotting bookseller's blind stamps to the blanks and owner's signatures to the half titles. Near Fine The Home Library Book Co hardcover
1924995H11London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1924-1926. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". Jean de Bosschere; Henry Keen. A uniform trio of lavishly illustrated 1920s classics of Garnett Ovid and Balzac in first and limited editions complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers and vibrant Art-Deco era plates. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers.A handsome uniform trio of illustrated literary editions compromising: 1924 The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales by Richard Garnett. The first illustrated edition. Illustrated with a monochrome lithographic frontispiece and twenty-seven monochrome lithographic plates by Henry Keen. Collated complete. A collection of Garnett"s rich imaginative short stories blending folklore fantasy and learned wit introduced by T. E. Lawrence.1925 The Love Books of Ovid translated by J. Lewis May. A limited edition being copy number six hundred and sixty-four of three thousand copies for sale. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece a further fifteen coloured plates and eight monochrome plates. Collated complete. A collection of Ovid"s erotic verse Amores Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae enriched by de Bosschere"s alluring illustrations.1926 Ten Droll Tales by Honoré de Balzac. A limited edition being number two thousand nine hundred and ninety-four of three thousand copies. With a coloured frontispiece a further fourteen coloured plates and eight monochrome plates. Collated complete. An engaging selection of Balzac"s lighter humorous short fiction introduced by André Maurois. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally lovely. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Slight shelf wear to extremities. One or two very minor handling marks to boards. Dust wrappers very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping resulting in one or two small chips closed tears and creasing to extremities more so to heads and tails of spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine John Lane The Bodley Head Limited hardcover
1926232010Paris France: René Kieffer 1926. Leather. Fine. 10" x 7 . Le Petit Alfred. IN FRENCH. Limited Edition # 107 of 500 printed. Illustrés et enluminés par Alfred Le Petit. Beautifully hand written and painted in colour on each page. Each page is a work of art. 7" X 10`". 94 pages. Marbled endpapers. Bookbinder's small label on top corner of blank page after ffep. T.e.g. Full brown leather with design of three fish blind tooled on front back and spine. Gilt titles on spine and raised bands. FINE. <br/> <br/> René Kieffer hardcover
1901988139The Wheeler Publishing Company 1901. Leather. Good - Cash. Half bound leather!! All volumes have hardcovers that are a dark forest green with black leather in the corners and on the spine. The black leather on most of the volumes has lightened making them a beautiful tan. Each of the spines has the author's last name the volume number and the titles within the volume in a vibrant gold gilt. Between the words on the spine there are beautiful patterns that alternate down the spine. It starts with a line across the width of the spine that's alternating between oval like and diamond like shapes. The pattern beneath it is a gorgeous rectangle that peaks on the breadth and indents along the length. There are flowers in each of the corners of the rectangle facing toward the middle with leaves following the breadth and length of the rectangle. In the center of the rectangle is another flower with four dots around it. Beneath the floral rectangle is the line of ovals and diamonds the title and volume number the ovals and diamods again followed by the floral rectangle and so forth as it continues down the spine. At the head and tail of the spine there are just a few simple dotted lines that go along the width. The corners of the books have been bumped. There's rubbing along their edges. Volume 17's spine is darker than the others. A few of the volumes have dark patches on their spines. The volumes have deckle edges. All volumes have top edge gilt. The pages show reader wear and are beginning to yellow. All volumes have cracks in the spine throughout. Some of the cracks reveal a bit of the netting. Several of the pages are stuck together throughout all volumes. Volumes 1 3 and 5 have notations/some writing in them. The illustration title page and table of contents of Vol. 1 have been torn out but are included. Vol. 3 has green staining on the top edge of the last few pages. 240 pages including the last endpages. The staining bleeds down onto the pages but doesn't go down very far. Vol. 5 has a tear in the bottom corner of the front gutter. Vol. 6 has some light staining to the front cover. In Vol. 7 the top corner of the illustration between pages 190-191 has been torn out. Vol. 13 has some staining near the top edge on the green of the back cover. There are a few small missing pieces on the very bottom edge of the last endpage near the spine. Some of the marble pattern has come off on the endpage and pastedown. There are a few small missing pieces on the last endpage near the spine of Vol. 15 Some of the marble pattern has come off on the endpage and pastedown. The last two pages including the last endpage have come loose but are still included with Vol. 16. The pages before them are beginning to come loose as well but are still secured. The netting is visible at the end of the book. There are two missing pieces on the top and bottom edges of the last endpage near the spine. A few of the pages have creasing in the bottom corner. There's fraying to the bottom edge of the front cover near the corner. Vol. 17's spine is darker than the others. The last 30 or so pages have been lightly creased. There's a crack in the front gutter of Vol. 18 that reveals a bit fo the netting. There's a crack at the end of Vol. 19 that reveals the netting and separates the last five pages from the others. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. The Wheeler Publishing Company hardcover
191087804Paris: Société du livre d'art 1910. Fine. Société du livre d'art Paris 1910 18 x 25.30 cm relié First separate edition illustrated with 13 color engravings by Charles Léandre engraved by Decisy including a frontispiece a title vignette and 11 in-text compositions. Copy enhanced with one of the ten suites in black of all the engravings and a facsimile drawing. Limited edition of 125 copies on vellum d'Arches. One of the copies reserved for honorary members 101 to 106 No. 95 for Louis Meley. Covers and spine preserved. Volume published under the direction of Baroness de Berckeim. Full wine-red long-grain morocco binding signed Noulhac at bottom of front pastedown. Spine with 4 raised bands richly decorated with mirror tooling and roll tools on the bands. Boards decorated with a wide border with large tools in the corners. Wide interior fillets and tooling. Dark green silk endpapers. Spine uniformly faded. On the lower board losses to gilding. The gathering forming the suite protruding. Numerous offsets from the engravings on surrounding pages creating browned areas. On the first endpaper handwritten gift inscription in blue pen across the entire page with the year 1963. Engraved bookplate of Louis Meley patron and art collector. Société du livre d'art hardcover
1976PL101Gallimard 1976. Hardcover. Neuf/Neuf. Relié cuir 18x11 cm. édition publiée sous la direction de Pierre-Georges Castex de 1976 à 1981. Série intégrale neuve tomes I à XII. Chaque livre sous jaquette et Rhodoéd dans son étui carton. Livres à l'état neuf n'ont jamais été lus. Pour l'UE envoi depuis la France sans frais ou taxe douanière ou TVA. En raison du poids important le coét du port sera déterminé lors de la vente en fonction de la destination. Gallimard hardcover
1928665New York: Boni & Liveright 1928. Ralph Barton. THIS COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY WHITMAN BENNETT IN 1/2 LEATHER WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE AND MARBLED BOARDS FIVE COMPARTMENTS AND FOUR RAISED BANDS TO SPINES WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN WITHOUT MARKS AND NO FOXING. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BOOK MEASURES 10"x7.25". LIMITED EDITION #325 of 2050 SIGNED BY PUBLISHER. A BEAUTIFUL SET IN GREAT CONDITION. Boni & Liveright unknown
19506430ROWOHLT ERNST 07/1950. 1. softcover. ROWOHLT, ERNST paperback
192113337AB1921. Berlin Euphorion 1921. 185 : 135 cm. 3 blank leaves 58 pages 3 leaves 2 blank 6 original signed etchings by Klaus Richter and etched title-page by Jan Tschichold Illustrated original calf signed Hübel & Denck top edge gilt. One of 150 numbered copis of the deluxe edition with the signed etchings by Klaus Richter. The artist was a pupil of Lovis Corinth and member of the Berlin Secession. - Edges a bit rubbed small exlibris on front fly-leaf otherwise a fine copy. unknown
1921627111Berlin: Euphorion Verlag 1921. 58 pp. 19 x 13.5 cm. Black full leather covered boards with blind stamped design on inlaid blue and red leather gilt titling to spine top edge gilt and blue ribbon bound in. Illustrated with six etchings by Klaus Richter. Copy number 35 of 150 copies on Zanders laid paper with each etching signed by Richter in a binding by Hubel & Denck of Leipzig. Sunning to spine with rubbing to spine edges and extremities of boards. Some light pressure marks to front board. Some toning to edges of endpapers from turn-ins. All plates present and signed in pencil by Richter. Limitation page hand-numbered in ink. Binding firm. A lovely copy of this limited edition by Euphorion in an uncommon binding. . Signed by Artist. Limited Numbered. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Richter Klaus. Euphorion Verlag Hardcover
