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Collected edition, first for some parts, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Half dark brown morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, brown paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spines (a few wormholes to covers, spine sunned) preserved, top edge gilt.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Joseph Kessel to his friend Henri Béraud : " A toi, mon très cher Henri, dont le nom est en tête de ce livre. Avec mon affection [For you, my dear Henri, whose name is at the very start of this book. With all affection]."
A little light foxing.
A nicely bound copy.
First complete collected edition and first illustrated edition. The first edition of Dom Garcie de Navarre, L’Impromptu de Versailles, Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre, Les Amans magnifiques, and La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas. With thirty copper engraved illustrations by Jean Sauvé after Pierre Brassart, 9 of them included in the pagination.19th-century red full morocco binding, spines with five raised bands, date gilt at foot, double gilt fillets to edges of covers and spine-ends, large inner gilt dentelle, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Bindings...
First edition, of which there were no large paper copies.
Contemporary half dark green shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt floral motifs, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, three corners bumped.
A little light insignificant spotting.
A good and rare copy in a contemporary binding.
