Claude FARRÈRE
Dix-sept histoires de marins
Paul Ollendorff|Paris 1914|11.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, one of 26 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue after 25 on China paper.
Half green morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with two turquoise mosaic morocco cartouches adorned with a scattering of gilt stars as well as gilt ink pot, life buoy and sailor's beret, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant contemporary binding signed Affolter.
Spine and boards marginally lightened.
A handsome, perfectly established copy.
Provenance: from the library of the Duke of Massa with his engraved bookplate mounted on an endpaper.
Half green morocco with corners, smooth spine decorated with two turquoise mosaic morocco cartouches adorned with a scattering of gilt stars as well as gilt ink pot, life buoy and sailor's beret, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant contemporary binding signed Affolter.
Spine and boards marginally lightened.
A handsome, perfectly established copy.
Provenance: from the library of the Duke of Massa with his engraved bookplate mounted on an endpaper.
€800