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Invitation card to the Quat'z'Arts Ball - “L'Entrée de Cyrus dans Babylone”
PMarmy, Paris 1925, 22.5 x 32 cm, one leaf
Invitation card to the Quat'z'Arts Ball - “L'Entrée de Cyrus dans Babylone” which took place on 22 June 1925 in Wagram. Very beautiful colour illustration by Théo Sardnal depicting Cyrus the Great.
This rare document presents the tickets in the lower margin and solemnly specifies: “Le comité sera impitoyable pour tout costume qui ne sera pas de l'époque” “The committee will be ruthless with all costumes that are not of the era”.
The first Quat'z'Arts ball, a great celebration organised by the students of the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris, took...

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.

Illustrated edition with 92 original compositions engraved with burin by Albert Decaris including 38 hors-texte plates, one of 55 copies on Imperial Japan paper, deluxe copies after 30 handmade white Japan paper.
Full brown morocco binding, spine very slightly faded with three raised bands, beveled boards, front board ornamented with the large plate of the original copper that served for the illustration of the work's frontispiece, endpapers and pastedowns of Japanese paper, frame of two black and gilt morocco fillets on the pastedowns, all edges gilt, covers preserved, superb binding signed M.T. Aigner.
The subscription fascicle written by Henry de Montherlant is bound at the end...

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...