ZOLA EmileLivre Rare Book
Van Dongen, Kees (Illustrator)Biblio.com
La Revolte Des Anges by Anatole France
195118033Paris: Scripta Et Picta 1951. leather_bound. Full green morocco covers and spine inlaid with light green tan and gray morocco ruled in colors and gilt all edges gilt green suede doublures uniform morocco edged chemise. Fine in slightly nicked slipcase. 221 pages. Folio 47 x 29 cm. Fifty-eight colored lithographs by Kees Van Dongen. Text printed in red and black with red and green initials; lithographs editioned by Mourlot. Limited edition copy 210 of 210. Van Dongen a Dutch painter joined the fauvist movement in 1906 became a fashionable portraitist after World War I but even in that medium he gave up all constraint -- he left a pitiless interpretation of Anatole France our author here as well as others condemning a period and a class. Designer morocco binding by Madeleine Gras. Some foxing throughout binding particularly bright and sharp slight edge rubbing to chemise. Scripta Et Picta unknown
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