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First edition, one of 5 numbered copies printed on Japan paper, the deluxe issue.
Bound in chocolate-brown half morocco, spine with five raised bands framed by black fillets, date gilt-stamped at foot; sides covered in cat's-eye paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers bound in, top edge gilt. A finely executed unsigned binding, slightly later.
A handsome copy in an appealing presentation.
First edition, printed in a small number on Dutch paper.
Spine and covers lightly sunned, small tears to the spine, final endpapers browned.
Speeches by M. Chaumié, Anatole France and Abel Hermant.
Autograph inscription signed by Eugène Fasquelle to Marcel Batilliat, whose name he misspelled: "à M. Marcel Batillat."
The Symbolist novelist Marcel Batilliat was a close friend of Émile Zola and campaigned to preserve the memory of the author of the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
Album of signatures created by Cecil Henland, 1908 issue bearing 36 signatures of leading figures from literature, cinema, music, the press and French theatre, each dated between 1908 and 1910.
Bound in red shagreen, flat spine with title gilt-stamped, vignette mounted on the upper cover, gilt edges, publisher’s binding.
Illustrated with a cover vignette with an ink signature of “The Ghost of a Celebrated General” (General Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts...
