Dufy, JeanBiblio.com
HERVIEU, Louise (Raoul Dufy)Biblio.com
L'ame du Cirque. Moralite couronnee par l'Academie Francaise
1924513857Paris: Librairie de France 1924. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition "sur Madagascar" issue. Folio. Unsewn signatures laid into color pictorial wrappers as issued. Pp. viii 40 8 plus plates profusely illustrated including full-page plates printed rectos only by Raoul Dufy Jean Cocteau Maurice Denis Pablo Picasso Georges Rouault etc. Contains a number of color lithographs including plates by Dufy Denis Rouault and Andre Favory.<br /> <br /> Limited to 40 hors commerce copies reserved for the author and the artists this copy designated in print on the colophon leaf: "Exemplaire reserve a" completed in Hervieu's ink holograph: "Raoul Dufy" and signed "Louise Hervieu." Front cover has short closed tear at lower edge rear cover has short bumped tear at topedge else a near fine bright copy housed in very good publisher's folding chemise of decorated paper-covered boards with moderate wear on spine and corners.<br /> <br /> Hervieu exhibited at the Salon des Independants and had a one-woman show at the Galerie Eugene Blot in Paris in 1910. Her work included book illustration and painting but a childhood illness led to diminished vision and she began to write instead resulting in her work L'Ame du Cirque. Her novel Sangs won the Prix Femina in 1935. A splendid association. Librairie de France unknown
