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COLETTE - LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile). L'Envers du music-hall. Paris : Au sans pareil, 1926. - In-4, 243 x 185 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 170 pp. (3 ff. last 2 blank), 5 plates, printed cover. Half dark green morocco, smooth spine decorated with a vertical band of brown morocco, cut in the centre by a gilt lozenge, author and title gilt in the centre, surrounded by two gilt circles extending over the boards, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine retained (Creuzevault). Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue complet de l'œuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur, II, pp. 73-79, n° 312. 32 burin compositions by Jean-Émile LABOUREUR (1877-1943), one of which is a frontispiece, 5 hors texte and 26 in the text. From 1906 to 1912, Colette performed on stage, touring with many artists such as the mime Georges Wague. In 1913 she published this collection of short stories, which forms a real tour diary in which she pays tribute to those who accompanied her and who made the glory of the cafés-théâtres, speaking of what is not seen, i.e. backstage, the daily life of the artists, their living conditions, etc. It is also a farewell to the stage and to this artistic world, 1912 being the year of her remarriage to Henry de Jouvenel and 1913 the year of the birth of her daughter Colette de Jouvenel, known as Bel-Gazou. Edition of 440 copies; this is one of 350 on Rives laid paper (n° 389). Copy in Creuzevault's art deco binding, enriched with an autograph note signed by Colette addressed to her printer, one page in-12 oblong, on the letterhead of "9, rue du Beaujolais": "Dear Koval and friend, here is the corrected proof, - please, let the corrections I indicate be made! Thank you and best wishes. Colette". From the library of Armand Massard, famous Olympic fencing champion, including his beautiful bookplate designed by Guy Arnoux. Spine faded, rubbing at the hinges. The binder has not preserved the boards of the illustrated hardback folder. Provenance: Armand Massard, with bookplate.
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COLETTE - LABOUREUR (Jean-Émile). L'Envers du music-hall. Paris : Au sans pareil, 1926. - In-4, 243 x 185 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 170 pp. (3 ff. last 2 blank), 5 plates, printed cover. Half dark green morocco, smooth spine decorated with a vertical band of brown morocco, cut in the centre by a gilt lozenge, author and title gilt in the centre, surrounded by two gilt circles extending over the boards, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine retained (Creuzevault). Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue complet de l'œuvre de Jean-Émile Laboureur, II, pp. 73-79, n° 312. 32 burin compositions by Jean-Émile LABOUREUR (1877-1943), one of which is a frontispiece, 5 hors texte and 26 in the text. From 1906 to 1912, Colette performed on stage, touring with many artists such as the mime Georges Wague. In 1913 she published this collection of short stories, which forms a real tour diary in which she pays tribute to those who accompanied her and who made the glory of the cafés-théâtres, speaking of what is not seen, i.e. backstage, the daily life of the artists, their living conditions, etc. It is also a farewell to the stage and to this artistic world, 1912 being the year of her remarriage to Henry de Jouvenel and 1913 the year of the birth of her daughter Colette de Jouvenel, known as Bel-Gazou. Edition of 440 copies; this is one of 350 on Rives laid paper (n° 389). Copy in Creuzevault's art deco binding, enriched with an autograph note signed by Colette addressed to her printer, one page in-12 oblong, on the letterhead of "9, rue du Beaujolais": "Dear Koval and friend, here is the corrected proof, - please, let the corrections I indicate be made! Thank you and best wishes. Colette". From the library of Armand Massard, famous Olympic fencing champion, including his beautiful bookplate designed by Guy Arnoux. Spine faded, rubbing at the hinges. The binder has not preserved the boards of the illustrated hardback folder. Provenance: Armand Massard, with bookplate.
