CARCO (Francis). Dignimont. Monte Carlo: Sauret, [1946]. - In-folio, 384 x 281 : (2 ff. first blank), 39 pp. (4 ff. last blank), 41 plates, printed cover. In leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase. Edition printed at 410 copies on Rives vellum, comprising 58 illustrations by André Dignimont, including an original lithograph in the frontispiece, numbered and signed by the artist, 16 compositions in the text and 41 out-of-text reproductions. Copy n° 170, enriched with a beautiful autograph letter signed by Dignimont, addressed to his friend the novelist, painter and journalist Jean Galtier-Boissière, of 2 pages in-4, dated L'Arcouest on November 22nd, 1939, about his 83 years old mother and new illustrations. M. Crépineau has also enriched the copy with 3 colour plates by Dignimont, 2 of them signed, from the July 1958 issue of Le Petit Crapouillot with on the first page a black illustration by Dignimont and a text by Galtier-Boissière on Carco, and a photograph of Dignimont, looking out of the window with the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in the background, taken in the 1950s but in a later print. A perfectly preserved copy. Provenance: Paul Jeuffrain, with ex-libris. Two works by Carco illustrated by Dignimont are enclosed : - L'Équipe. Paris : Rouffé, 1925. - In-8, 243 x 190 : (1 f.), 179 pp, (2 ff.), illustrated cover. Paperback, filled cover, publisher's slipcase. Beautiful edition, "sought-after and highly rated" according to Carteret, illustrated with 20 beautiful woodcuts in colours by André Dignimont, including 3 full-page engravings. Edition at 336 copies signed by Gouffé; this one is one of 274 on Lafuma pur fil (n° 318), enriched with a suite of 3 woodcuts on thin japanese paper as well as a very beautiful autograph letter signed by the author, of 3 pages in-12, undated (1919?), addressed to his "dear friend". In this letter, Carco thanks his correspondent for his "brilliant and so generous article on the Equipe". He warns him that he will go to Nice to rest. "It is the theatre that allows me such a luxurious rest. You know that it works very well at the Renaissance and that I am definitely going to start writing plays between two novels."He informs her that he is going to get married: "Ah, youth, where are you? It was so good to die of hunger and to live in full fantasy. Here, old man, everyone is getting settled." A very well preserved copy. Mottling to the 3 engravings on thin japon. - From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter. Brussels : Aux Éditions du Nord, 1928. - In-8, 204 x 149 : 247 pp, (2 last blank ff.), illustrated cover. Blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, spine decorated with a mosaic guitar in beige and brown leather and decorated with a gilt ribbon, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine retained (Bernasconi). Deluxe edition published in the collection "Les Gloires littéraires", illustrated with 60 colour compositions by Dignimont. One of 1000 copies on Allura vellum (n° 1063), very well bound by Bernasconi. Attached is a business card of the author with 6 autographed words and a drawing of a heart.