Maurice MAGRE

Illustrated edition with 5 hors-texte woodcuts in color and black tailpieces by Ahü, one of 750 numbered copies on laid paper.
Minor worming to foot of back board, endpapers very lightly and partially shadowed.
Handsome copy.

First edition of this lyric tragedy in three acts set to music by André Gailhard, one of 20 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half tawny shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly darkened with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and compartments of brown mosaicked shagreen, gilt date at tail, moiré-effect paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges, binding signed by Saulnier.
Fine and rare full-margined copy.

First edition, one of 70 copies on Hollande Van Gelder initialed by the author and artist and containing two states of the etchings.
Work illustrated with twelve original color etchings by the artist and twenty-three pencil drawings printed typographically by Edouard Chimot.
Full red and dark brown morocco binding, smooth spine depicting an infernal landscape inlaid with light brown, grey and dark blue morocco, boards illustrated with bronze flame motifs intertwining in inlay, bronze and gilt fillets emphasizing the separation between the red and brown morocco, gilt zigzag fillet at foot of first board, pastedowns framed with red and dark brown morocco, gilt and palladium fillets framing the pastedowns, pastedowns and endpapers lined with red moiré silk, top edge gilt, deckled edges, covers and spine preserved. Slipcase lined with paper and edged with red morocco. Near-contemporary binding signed A. Bianchi.
Paper of the slipcase detached in places.
Very handsome copy in a remarkable Art Deco-inspired decorative binding.

First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
A tiny marginal stain without consequence at the head of the first cover, handsome copy.

Published the same year as the first edition, falsely stated 1000th.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned.

A complete set of the Les Nuits series, as published by Flammarion. First editions of some of the 12 works, each one of 750 numbered copies reimposed on vélin de Rives paper.
The works are bound in threes in half navy-blue shagreen by Houades, the spines decorated with stars and crescent moons in palladium, upper covers preserved (some lower also retained), all edges gilt.
All the works are illustrated with etchings, lithographs or woodcuts, each by a different artist from among the following : Alexeieff, Ahü, Dignimont, Baudier, Renefer, Drouart, Mainssieux, Suréda, Fouqueray, Serveau and Dethomas.
A very good and rare complete set of the Les Nuits series, as published by Flammarion.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine slightly sunned as usual, otherwise a handsome copy.