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Roland DORGELES

Georges-Victor HUGO & Jean-Gabriel DARAGNES

Les croix de bois

Albin Michel, Paris 1919, 13x20cm, relié sous étui.

Albin Michel | Paris 1919 | 13 x 20 cm | bound in a slipcase
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland, only large papers after 15 Japan.
Bound in Empire green morocco, spine in five compartments, gilt date at the foot, green paper endpapers, border of gilt fillets on the inner covers, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on the rough, slipcase lined with Empire green morocco, marbled paper boards, interior in green baize, binding signed Mativet.
Wrapper illustrated with a vignette by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès.
A pleasant, perfectly set copy.
Our copy is enriched with a handwritten note dated 20 April 1917 and signed by the painter Georges-Victor Hugo, Victor Hugo's grandson, to the director of Gaulois, Arthur Meyer, to whom he promises to send “un de mes petits dessins à l'œuvre des éprouvés de la guerre” “one of my small drawings to the charity for those affected by the war”.
We attach, mounted with tabs, the original watercolour enhanced with ink by Georges-Victor Hugo, that he sent to Arthur Meyer and which represents a WWI French soldier standing in his trench.

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