Editions Excelsior

First edition, one of 4 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Very rare and handsome copy.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Ventura Garcia Calderon by Marie Laurencin.

First edition, one of 11 numbered copies on japon paper, ours bearing N°1, deluxe copy.
Photographic frontispiece, introduction by Georges Normandy, publisher's slip preserved.
A handsome copy despite minor worming to the boards.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription from Camille Audigier to Henri de Régnier, then academician.
Spine sunned.

Edition printed with only 545 numbered copies, ours printed on Arches.
Work illustrated by Léonard Foujita with 60 original pochoir coloured compositions, including 1 frontispiece, 16 insert, 43 compositions on cut and pasted paper, and 12 culs-de-lampes.
Binding in half brown morocco with colour recovery, spine richly decorated with gilt geometric motifs and a hexagonal cartouche containing gold-stamped cranes and a bouquet of roses in mosaic, gilt fillet on the boards, marbled endpapers, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on the rough, contemporary binding.
Rare and beautiful copy, pleasantly set.

FOUJITA Tsugouharu, Léonard & CLAUDEL Paul. L'Oiseau noir dans le soleil levant
Editions Excelsior, Paris 1927, 20 x 26 cm, original wrappers
First edition in parts, one of 425 numbered copies on vergé d'Arches paper.
With a cover and 12 original etchings by Foujita.
Two very slight tears to spine.
A good copy with its folding plate at end.