Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959) - Jules ROMAINS (1885-1972) The Four Seasons. Jules Romains. Oct. MCMXVI. Large in-4, title f., 13 leaves in blue ink, 5 leaves containing full-page watercolors, a study in watercolor and ink, and a charcoal on vellum, bound in full vellum. Original unpublished manuscript by Jules ROMAINS in blue ink, "finished on October twenty-eight, Nineteen hundred and sixteen, in Paris", illustrated with five original watercolors signed, two studies in watercolor and charcoal in sheets by Charles PICART LE DOUX. The first edition is enclosed. S.l. s.é. s.d. [circa 1916]. One of 103 copies on pur chiffon with the autograph signatures of ROMAINS and PICART LE DOUX. [Not collated].

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