First edition. Pre-original edition of Considérations sur la mythologie Grecque by André Gide.
Other contributions by Jacques Rivière, Georges Simon, André Lhote, Paul Claudel, Albert Thibaudet.
With the NRF subscription bulletin, handsome copy of one of the first issues of the most famous French literary review.
New illustrated edition 300 numbered copies printed, ours on marble Vellum paper. The book is embellished with 50 drawings in color by Pablo Roig and decorated with a frame in the Art Nouveau style by Riom.
Full brown shagreen, the spine sunned in five compartments completely blindtooled from half circle embellished with golden carnations, fillets by cold soldering outline the raised band, date and place of publication to foot, covers are completely framed with a grid pattern of blindtooled fillets forming decorative compartments in their center a golden hoop, the large plate achieved by Saint-André in the center of the first chiseled cover in a sunken Andalusian pattern representing “golden roots surrounding a phantom tree like in the novel, of P. Louys, the women are surrounded by a phantom man” in the double golden frame, signed by the artist on the outside of the plate, golden wheels outline the headband and the spine head, the end pages and the fly pages of silk with a painted rose pattern by Saint- André, the golden fillets and the wheels and the pattern incised in emerald morocco and garnet in frames the end pages, the fly pages doubled with paper in a grey and orange floral pattern, the covers preserved, gilt edges. The slipcover is covered in silk to give the effect of iridescence trimming in brown shagreen. Binding by Noulhac in collaboration with Saint-André.
Manuscript note by Saint-André: this binding was probably presented at the Salon of French artists at the Grand Palais Beaux-Arts at the Champs-élysées it was probably not submitted to the competition and to the members of the jury. Moreover, a note on the manuscript written by the artist on a broad-sheet explains the meaning of the central pattern of the first cover. Very light repair on the foot of a joint.
Exceptional Andalusian inspired Art Nouveau binding presented at the Salon of French artists.
The rare first edition, illustrated with a folding map.
Contemporary half green sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Gilt title. Tear to headcap with loss. One corner stripped of paper. Rubbing. Trace of pale dampstain on the map and from the first page of text to p. 69 in lower margin, and on the table. Stains on spine.
Physical and human geography of Egypt, Syria, Arabia and India, customs and manners. The volume was published when Bonaparte's Egyptian expedition had just been launched; it evokes the mythical route followed by Alexander the Great, from Egypt to India, a route coveted by the French.
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First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Lettre à P.C., consul by Francis Jammes.
Contributions by André Ruyters, Francis Jammes, Paul Fargue and Henri Ghéon.
A small stain at the foot of the front cover, a mark along the full length of the back cover.
An extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most famous French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of A André Chénier by François-Paul Alibert.
Contributions by Michel Arnaud, François-Paul Alibert, François Porché, Jean Talva and Louis Laloy.
A few tiny spots on the back cover and a crease mark on the front, otherwise a handsome copy.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most famous French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Dolly by Valéry Larbaud and Nationalisme et littérature (2ème partie) by André Gide.
Other contributions by Henri Ghéon, Guy Lavaud, Gaston Furst, Louis Laloy and Louis Iehl.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most famous French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Introduction ç une Métaphysique du Rêve by Jacques Rivière.
Contributions by Michel Arnaud, François-Paul Alibert, François Porché, Jean Talva and Louis Laloy.
A tiny trace of angular folding on the first cover.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most celebrated French literary review of the twentieth century.
First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies on Japan paper. Pre-original edition of Trois Hymnes by Paul Claudel.
Other contributions by Henri de Régnier, Paul Valery, Francis Carco, André Ruyters, Eduard Ducoté and André Gide.
A tiny tear without loss at the foot of the second cover, otherwise a handsome copy.
Extremely rare deluxe copy of one of the very first issues of the most celebrated French literary review of the twentieth century.
