Charles-Emile SAUTY
[MAGIE - PRESTIDIGITATION] La Baguette magique. Collection complète de la deuxième série[MAGIC – CONJURING] La Baguette magique. Complete Set of the Second Series]
Der Zauberstab|Geneva 1945-1948|16.7 x 23.8 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, complete in 23 instalments, of the second series of this magic periodical (cf. Fechner, p. 503).
Text in two columns; each instalment, richly illustrated, comprises between 12 and 16 pages (20 for the final one).
Contemporary half-sheep bindings: the first volume in brown, the second in tan, the spines with four raised bands tooled with gilt ornaments, moiré-patterned paper sides, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges; one original wrapper preserved. Bindings from the period, though mismatched in tone between the two volumes.
Complete collection of the second series of this Swiss periodical, whose first publication appeared in 1941–42 as the “j
€1,000