Jean-Émile LABOUREUR

First edition, one of the copies on alfa reserved for press service.
Half olive-green box binding, smooth spine, boards covered with decorative paper, olive-green endpapers, covers and spine preserved, binding signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Valuable signed autograph inscription from André Gide to the painter and illustrator (Jean-Emile) Laboureur.

Edition printed in 575 numbered copies on Arches laid paper and illustrated with 6 original engravings as well as 6 original wood-engraved vignettes by Jean-Emile Laboureur
Spine very lightly faded with two small tears at foot, one stain and black foxing framing the title vignette on the first cover, handsome interior condition.

First edition, one of 650 numbered copies on Johannot laid paper, ours unnumbered, ours one of the few hors commerce copies, the only issue after 50 Japan.
Fine copy.
Letter-preface by Jean-Giraudoux.
Frontispiece with a portrait of Jean-Emile Laboureur by André Dunoyer de Segonzac.
Work illustrated with vignettes, initials, tailpieces, drawings, in text and full-page by Jean-Emile Laboureur.
Our hors commerce copy and probably artist's copy is exceptionally enhanced with 24 additional engravings by Jean-Emile Laboureur as well as 2 engravings not reproduced in this volume of the collection Les artistes du livre.

First Gallimard edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with a vignette by Jean-Emile Laboureur on the first cover.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on nacre Japan paper, the only deluxe copies.
Texts by André Antoine, Tristan Bernard, Léon Daudet, Maurice Dekobra, Henry-Paté.
The first text, by André Antoine, is illustrated with colored in-text illustrations by Jean Bruller; the second, by Tristan Bernard, by Edy Legrand; the following by Pesle; that of Maurice Dekobra by Jean-Emile Laboureur and, finally, Henry-Paté by Josué Gaboriaud.
Handsome copy complete with its slipcase, the first cover of which is illustrated with a drawing by Marcel Vertès.

Edition illustrated with 6 original engravings and 6 original wood-engraved vignettes by Jean-Emile Laboureur, and printed in 575 numbered copies on Arches laid paper.
Half blue morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments ornamented with gilt geometric motifs, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Canape.
Handsome copy perfectly executed.

First edition, one of 49 numbered copies reimposed on imperial Japan paper, deluxe issue after 1 unique Japan and 19 old Japan copies.
Rare and handsome copy.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author by Gorvel and 4 original etchings by Jean-Emile Laboureur.
Handsome copy complete with the double state of the etchings and a proof of the cancelled plates on Japan as stipulated in the justification of issue.

Edition illustrated with 16 original burin engravings by Jean-Emile Laboureur, one of 420 numbered copies on Arches laid paper.
Handsome copy despite the first cover being marginally and slightly creased.

Illustrated edition with 6 original engravings and 6 original vignettes engraved on wood by Jean-Emile Laboureur, and printed in 575 numbered copies on vergé d'Arches paper.
Nice copy.

COWPER William
illustration by LABOUREUR Jean-émile
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
Ronald Davis, Paris 1931, 13,5 x 20 cm, brown half morocco
Illustrated edition of 35 original color lithographs by Jean-Emile Laboureur, one of 55 numbered copies on China paper, the only print after the 3 on old Japan paper.
Brown half morocco binding, spine in five compartments, gilt date at base, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Alix.
Very fine copy, perfectly presented.
$ 3 750

BOULESTIN Xavier Marcel
illustration by LABOUREUR Jean-émile
Dans les Flandres britanniques. British Expeditionary Force, Mai 1915 - Janvier 1916
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on vellum, ours is a press office copy, only print with 50 Holland. Half moroccan shagreen binding, red paper boards, paste downs and endpapers, covers and spine preserved.
Ex-libris glued to a paste down.
Illustrated with 24 drawings by Jean-Emile Laboureur.

Edition with drawings by Jean-Emile Laboureur, a numbered copy on vergé paper, stated the 1000th.
Upper cover and spine uniformly faded.

Exceptional complete first edition of the 70 issues published in 69 issues of this legendary magazine. This complete copy, contains six additional prints not listed in Colas, making a total of 727 full-page plates. For the first issues, 3/4 red half-shagreen bindings, some rubbing to spines, framed with gilt fillets on the boards, corners bent, gilt top edges ; the following issues are presented in loose leaves as issued from number 7 of the year 1914, housed in burgundy cardboard slipcases.
Exceptional complete collection of this “very rare collection, the most important and most interesting for contemporary fashion” (Carteret). Launched in November 1912 under the direction of Lucien...

New edition, one of 25 non-trade copies numbered on Holland paper, head print.
Binding in full old pink morocco, smooth back adorned with incisions of pieces of brown, pink and beige morocco representing floral motifs as well as bands of morocco covered with seedlings of gold dots, golden borders on the caps, ornate boards of two garnet and light pink morocco roses as well as five morocco bands terminated in spikes and covered with a sowing of gold dots, guards and undersides of fabric embroidered with gold or silver threads and with floral motifs , framing on the counterplates of the same decor as on the boards, following guards of paper in the tank, preserved covers and back, gilded...

Edition illustrated with 16 original copper engravings by Jean-Emile Laboureur, one of 25 numbered copies on vieux Japon à la forme, deluxe issue.
Full green box calf binding, smooth spine decorated with inlaid pieces of brown and red box calf forming a pattern of alternating diagonal lines extending onto the boards, a gilt fillet and a palladium fillet on the covers, black watered silk endpapers and doublures framed with a wide strip of green box calf and a geometric composition of red box calf framed in gilt on the doublures, original wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, elegant Art Deco binding dated and signed by Geneviève de Léotard, 1931.

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LABOUREUR Jean-Emile & ALLARD Roger. L’Appartement des jeunes filles
Camille Bloch, Paris 1919, 13,5 x 21 cm, leather binding
First edition, one of 36 numbered large format re-imposed copies on vieux Japon à la forme paper, the leading copies.
Spectacular light brown grained leather imitating snake’s scales by Lobstein, dark brown cloth title label, light brown imitation Japon-paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
With six original burin prints by Jean-Emile Laboureur.
A very good copy, finely bound, of the first work illustrated by Jean-Emile Laboureur.

Edition illustrated with 7 original etchings by Jean-Emile Laboureur, one of 300 numbered copies on vélin blanc à la cuve B.F.K. de Rives.
A tiny tear, not serious, to head of the spine, otherwise a good copy.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on vélin, the only printing along with 50 Hollande. Illustrated with 24 drawings by Jean-Emile Laboureur. A rare and good copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on laid paper, with only 6 copies printed on China paper and 24 on Japan paper.
Work illustrated with five drawings by Laboureur.
Autograph inscription from André Billy to Albert Milhaud.
Spine and covers marginally faded as usual.