Maurice DONNAY

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half olive green cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, gilt date and double fillet at foot, brown sheep title-label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Maurice Donnay to Jules Lemaître.

First edition presented in the form of 10 fascicles abundantly illustrated by Toulouse-Lautrec, Zyg Brunner, Dignimont, Charles Léandre, Mich, Lucien Boucher...
Some minor foxing without consequence, handsome copy.

First edition, one of the rare copies on Whatman paper, ours printed specially for Paul Ollendorff.
Half hazelnut morocco binding with corners, spine with four raised bands set with gilt garlands as well as black fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré-effect paper, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt on deckled edges.
Provenance: from the library of Paul Ollendorff.

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies, false statement of fifth edition.
Half hazel morocco binding with corners, spine with four raised bands set with gilt garlands and black fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot, marbled paper boards, moiré-effect endpapers and pastedowns with a minor tear at foot, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges.
Provenance: from the library of Paul Ollendorff.

First collective edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half mouse-grey cloth, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt floral motif, date and double gilt fillets at foot, hazelnut shagreen title-label showing traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, corners slightly bumped, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed by Paul Vié.
Our copy is enhanced with a recto-verso autograph note by the author pasted onto an endpaper.

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in half mouse-grey cloth, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt floral motif, gilt date and double fillet at foot, hazelnut shagreen title-label with traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, upper corners slightly bumped, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed by Paul Vié.
Signed autograph inscription from Maurice Donnay to Henri Lavedan.
Furthermore, our copy is enriched with an autograph note from the author addressed to the same recipient.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half mouse-grey cloth, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt floral motif, gilt date and double fillet at foot, hazelnut shagreen title-label with traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, lower corners slightly bumped, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed by Paul Vié.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph note recto-verso by the author.
A small marginal tear skilfully repaired on the first page.

First edition, of which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Bradel binding in half mouse-grey cloth, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt floral motif, gilt date and double fillet at foot, hazel shagreen title-label showing some rubbing, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed by Paul Vié.
Inscribed by Maurice Donnay to Henri Lavedan.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Arches paper, one draw and 15 after 5 Japan Holland paper.
Signed autograph of Maurice Donnay Robert Garric.
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his...

First edition printed on ordinary paper, with no mention of deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Inscribed by the authors to Marcel Prévost.
Handsome illustrated cover.
Spine slightly faded and split at foot.