Barabbas. Paroles dans la vallée

DESCAVES Lucien
illustrated by STEINLEN Théophile Alexandre
Barabbas. Paroles dans la vallée [Barabbas. Words in the Valley]
Eugène Rey, Paris 1914, 16 x 20,5 cm, dark brown morocco and custom slipcase
First edition, one of a 100 numbered copies on Japan paper, enriched with a suite of illustrations printed on China paper, the tirage de tête.
Dark brown morocco by Gruel, spine in five compartments (very slightly faded), pastedowns lined with a dark brown morocco frame and five gilt fillets, moiré cloth endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillet to edges of covers, gilt roulettes to head of spine, wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, dark brown morocco-edged slipcase.
With lithographs by Steinlen. This copy is enriched with a rare suite of the drawings on China paper.
A fine copy remarkably bound by Léon Gruel.
$ 1 800