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Colette (1873-1954)

COLETTE

Épouse d'Henry Gauthier-Villars, dit Willy, puis d'Henri de Jouvenel, enfin de Maurice Goudeket. Signe Colette Willy jusqu'en 1923, puis Colette à partir de cette date

Languages

French

Pays

France

Birth

28 janvier 1873

Death

3 août 1954

Other names

WILLY Colette (Married name)
COLETTE Gabrielle Sidonie
COLETTE Sidonie Gabrielle
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  54. L'entrave
    COLETTE
    L'entrave
    Lib. des lettres|Paris 1913|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Arches paper reserved for the “XX” bibliophiles club, the tirage de tête along with 10 copies reimposed on Van Gelder.
    Very elegant red morocco by Canape, spine in six compartments with tiny insignificant scratch to centre, date to foot, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, double gilt fillets to edges of covers, gilt fillet frame to khaki morocco pastedowns, red silk endpapers, double covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, slipcase edged with red morocco and lined with beige felt.
    Signed by the author on justification page.
    Ex-libris pasted to verso of first silk endpaper.
    A fine copy in a superb lined binding by Canape.
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  69. La Table ronde. Premier Cahier.
    Paul CLAUDEL, Francis JAMMES
    La Table ronde. Premier Cahier.
    La Table Ronde|Paris 1946|21.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
    First edition, numbered copy on Vélin Crèvecoeur. Several pre-original editions of texts by cited authors.
    Publisher's folded cover, printed in yellow and black, corners slightly bumped, spine partially detached without loss.
    Numerous collaborations by: P. Claudel, F. Mauriac, F. Jammes, Colette, N. Gogol, A. Gide, Alain, S. Spender.
    The work includes a watercolor by Antoine Bourdelle as frontispiece and is complete with the numerous facsimiles of manuscripts such as Chateaubriand, F. Jammes, Louis XIV or drawings by H. Matisse, P. Bonnard, L. - A. Moreau, C. Bérard (in color).
    The publishing house La Table ronde, despite its youth (it was created in 1944), brings together some of the greatest contemporary writers.
    Handsome copy.
    €120
  71. La maison de Claudine
    COLETTE, Jean-Émile LABOUREUR
    La maison de Claudine
    La cité des livres|Paris 1927|16.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
    New edition, one of the 25 non-commercial copies numbered on Holland paper, first edition.
    Binding full morocco rose old, smooth back decorated with incisions of brown, pink and beige morocco pieces representing floral motifs as well as morocco strips covered with seedlings of golden dots, golden edges on the headdresses, boards decorated with two garnet and light pink morocco roses and five morocco bands finished in spikes and covered with a sowing of golden dots, guards and contreplats of fabric embroidered with gold or silver thread and with floral motifs , framing on the contreplats of the same decoration as on the boards, guards following paper in the vat, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded head on witnesses, golden nets on the cuts, elegant binding typically Art Déco.
    Signed autograph of Colette on the page of fake title: "For Germaine, you who like what is simple, what is sincere, you probably like the simplest book, the most sincere, that has written your old and faithful friend Colette. "
    Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter signed three pages of Colette to the same Germaine on blue paper to send him this beautiful copy: "thank god without images". Colette knows that her bibliophile friend will appreciate it because "apart from loving clean papers and beautiful characters, I only keep the books for their text."
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