PAUL CLAUDEL. - Protée. Illustrated with 28 woodcuts by Daragnès. Éditions de la NRF, 1919. In-8 br. One of 390 on pur fil Lafuma Navarre - Sous les remparts d'Athènes. For the centenary of Marcellin Berthelot. Librairie Gallimard, éditions de la NRF, 1928. In-12 br. First bookstore edition on Lafuma Navarre. - Le livre de Christophe Colomb. Illustrations by Jean Charlot. Librairie Gallimard, NRF, 1933. In-4. First edition. One of the first 55 on Japon impérial, this one no. IV. - Les Aventures de Sophie. Gallimard, NRF, 1937. In-12 br. First edition. - La Rose et le chèvrefeuille. Original etching by Othon Coubine as frontispiece. In 4 br. Les bibliophiles alésiens, Alès, 1942. One of 100 Lafuma pur fil, this one n°11, after 20 Auvergne. All 5 volumes.

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