Félicien CHAMPSAUR

Autograph letter dated and signed by Félicien Champsaur, approximately 75 lines in pink ink, addressed to a writer friend from his Parisian residence on rue Ballu.
Fold marks inherent to mailing, tears to right margins of the letter at fold level.
Félicien Champsaur apologizes for his late response: "Ne m'en veuillez pas et pardonnez, définitivement, à un confrère, harcelé par tous les flux de la vie, mais qui est "votre ami" , très acquis par les plus charmants souvenirs" ("Do not hold it against me and forgive, definitively, a colleague, harassed by all the streams of life, but who is 'your friend', very devoted through the most charming memories") and extends his best wishes for the beginning of 1903.
He also mentions the forthcoming publication of his work "L'orgie latine" to be published by Eugène Fasquelle and which will be decorated with illustrations, and proposes to his correspondent to collaborate on the review la Bavarde to which he contributes some articles.

First edition on current paper, mention of fifth edition.
Some small freckles without gravity.
Illustrated book of color drawings by Louis Morin and Henry Gerbault, preface by Arsène Houssaye.
Illustrated cover and frontispiece by Jules Chéret.
Signed autograph of Félicien Champsaur to glass painter Henri Carot: "To the good artist Henri Carot, in strong sympathy ..."

First edition on ordinary paper.
Minor scratches of no consequence to the spine.
Work decorated with 75 illustrations in black and watercolored with pochoir by Georges Bottini, Auguste François-Marie Gorguet and Charles Lucas.
Cover illustrated by Georges Bottini.

first edition on the current paper.
Precious autograph signed Felicien Champsaur Auguste François-Marie Gorguet who illustrated the book: "In the master painter Gorguet his accomplice and friend ..."
Book decorated with 75 illustrations in black and watercolor stencil Georges Bottini, Auguste François-Marie Gorguet and Charles Lucas.
Cover art by Georges Bottini.
A lack leads the second flat, restored tear on the back.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Félicien Champsaur: " A Henri Béraud, son ennemi.
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Lucien Jaquelux, archaeological commentary illustrated by Fabius Lorenzi.
Spine with a tear and a reglued tear at foot, worming to boards, foxing to endpapers.
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on Île de Ré.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper.
Work illustrated with color illustrations by Bourdelle, Faivre, Léandre, Robaudi, Steinlen...
Like the copies on Japan and China paper, our copy is complete with the duplicate state of the illustrations on Japan paper.
A tiny corner lack and a small marginal stain at head of front cover.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Work illustrated with a beautiful frontispiece as well as a portrait of the author by Léandre.
Small tear at foot of spine, worming on boards, two leaves poorly cut.

First edition.
Autograph inscription signed by Félicien Champsaur in red ink, on the cover, to Charles Fasquelle.
One mark in blue pencil on the cover, covers faded.

Second edition.
Bradel binding in half lilac cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, mint green shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Occasional minor foxing.