Paris

first edition.
Preface by General Gouraud.
A small hole at the bottom of the title page.
Binding in half shagreen navy blue, back with four nerves enriched with a golden allegorical central motif, traces of friction on the nerves, boards, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, preserved covers, blue head.
Illustrated book of four inset photographic plates.
Autograph shipment dated 1944 and signed by Georges Thenault to Marius Bienaimé.

first edition on current paper.
Pleasant copy despite a small tear at the bottom of the back and a trace of folding without gravity at the bottom of the second board.
Text by Alexandre Cirici.
Illustrated number of 3 original color lithographs and double page as well as 8 color reproductions of works by Joan Miro.
Autograph signed by Joan Miro to Sophie Perrot in black pencil.

New edition, one of 25 non-trade copies numbered on Holland paper, head print.
Binding in full old pink morocco, smooth back adorned with incisions of pieces of brown, pink and beige morocco representing floral motifs as well as bands of morocco covered with seedlings of gold dots, golden borders on the caps, ornate boards of two garnet and light pink morocco roses as well as five morocco bands terminated in spikes and covered with a sowing of gold dots, guards and undersides of fabric embroidered with gold or silver threads and with floral motifs , framing on the counterplates of the same decor as on the boards, following guards of paper in the tank, preserved covers and back, gilded...

Illustrated edition of 12 original lithographs hors-texte by Henri Matisse and printed in 370 numbered copies on vellum to shape, ours one of the 315 numbered in Arabic numerals.
The book is also decorated with an original composition by Henri Matisse reproduced in stencil in yellow and white on the covers as well as with 6 linocuts: 2 headbands, 2 culs-de-lumière and 2 drop caps.
Back of the shirt slightly exposed, small spots on the flats of the case.
Pleasant copy in spite of small freckles without gravity mainly affecting some sheets in their margins.
Handwritten signatures of André Rouveyre and Henri Matisse, in pencil, below the justification for the...

Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full brown grained sheep binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, complete with its cellophane wrapper, dust jacket and soft slipcase.
Handsome copy.

Original illustrated edition, at the end of the volume, of 39 black reproductions of works by François Pompon and of a portrait by Petitjean.
Pleasant and rare copy also illustrated, in frontispiece, of a portrait of François Pompon by Chana Orloff.
A shadow affecting the guard on which the shipment appears as well as on the last guard.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Robert Rey to the close friend of François Pompon Léon Deshairs: "... which is for such a large part at the origin of all this and which we see passing in these pages, I affectionately offer this little book, Robert Rey.
Léon Deshairs has, at the end of the text and in pencil, added...

first edition on current paper.
Binding in half navy blue canvas, smooth back decorated with a golden floral pattern, title label of red shagreen; initials and double gilt thread at the tail, marbled paper boards, paper guards and floral counterplates, modest binding from the contemporary.
Rare autograph shipment signed by Prince Félix Youssoupoff to Mademoiselle Colette Vincent.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on "vélin pur-fil" paper for each of the volumes, only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Beautiful copy.

First edition, one of 17 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Beautiful copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on laid Arches paper paper, only large papers with 20 copies on colored vellum reserved for the author.
Our copy is complete, in frontispiece, of his original lithograph by Suzanne Valadon that only large papers have.
Pleasant copy wide-margined exceptionally enriched with an autograph shipment signed by Maurice Utrillo: "In respectful tribute to Mrs. Maire, and in sympathy to Mr. Maire. Maurice Utrillo, V, Saint-Bernard (Ain) October 1925." enriched by the handwritten signature of Suzanne Valadon and an autograph shipment signed by her husband, the painter André Utter.