Paris

Autograph signed postcard addressed to Alfred Barr and his wife Autograph postcard signed by Joan Miró addressed to M. and Mme Barr, written on the back of a black and white view of the Colonne de Juillet (July Column). Next to Miró's signature is that of his wife Pilar and his daughter Dolorès.
Charming greetings card addressed to American friends: Alfred Barr – art critic and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York – and his wife.

First illustrated edition, first printing, rare. The original was published in 1844 in eight volumes. A frontispiece portrait of Dumas by Beaucé, and 32 hors-texte by Delestre, Beaucé, Marckl, Wattier... Letters, tail-pieces, headpieces.
Bound in contemporary half black sheep. Spine with false bands, richly decorated boards with 4 large tooled motifs, roll-tooling on the tail and heads of the bands. Rubbed binding. Light scattered foxing, notably on several off-texts.
The paper is clean on the whole and unusually white. Corners dulled. A good copy.

Trois morceaux pour piano à quatre mains : Chinoiserie – Valse sentimentale
– Kasatchok First edition illustrated with 6 lithographs in two tones, including 4 full page, by Michel Larionow.

A rare and pleasant copy.

Handwritten mock-up for issue n°4 of the periodical Le Surréalisme mêmeHandwritten mock-up intended to become the fourth cover of issue n°4 of the journal Le Surréalisme même, consisting of a manuscript in pencil, ballpoint pen, ink and a glued label. Interesting handwritten placard composed by six hands, as indicated by the caption on the back. The typographical annotations are by Benjamin Péret, the glued paper by Jean-Louis Bédouin and all the rest by André Breton.
Some folds and a minor cut with no loss of content in the lower right margin of the leaf.

Edition decorated with 20 unpaged original colour illustrations by Léon Carré, one of the 135 numbered copies on Japan Imperial containing an inventory of all the illustrations on thin vellum, print after 25 Japan.
Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine in four compartments set with floral motifs consisting of green, mauve and purple mosaic morocco pieces, blind roll tooling on the caps, frame of a beige mosaic morocco strip on the boards enriched with gilt dots in the corners and pieces of green, brown, purple and mauve mosaic morocco in a floral and leaf design, frame of seven gilt fillets and a chocolate brown mosaic morocco strip on the paste downs in full Havana morocco, watered silk endpapers embroidered with silver threads, following endpapers marbled, black fillets on the leading edges, covers and spines preserved, all edges gilt, slipcase edged in chocolate brown morocco, marbled paper boards, interior in chocolate brown paper, superb mosaic binding signed Marius Michel.
A very beautiful copy perfectly set in a full mosaic, lined morocco binding by Michel.