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LOUYS (Pierre): Byblis. Ferroud, 1906. In-8 paperback, illustrated cover. Title vignette and 42 large text frames illustrated in color by Henri Caruchet. Publisher's son's copy, printed on Japon, containing a black suite on Chine and a handwritten letter from the artist (some spotting on the edges and suite). One of the most successful and representative books of Art Nouveau.

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LOUYS (Pierre): Byblis. Ferroud, 1906. In-8 paperback, illustrated cover. Title vignette and 42 large text frames illustrated in color by Henri Caruchet. Publisher's son's copy, printed on Japon, containing a black suite on Chine and a handwritten letter from the artist (some spotting on the edges and suite). One of the most successful and representative books of Art Nouveau.

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LOUŸS (Pierre) - COLLIN (Raphaël). Les Chansons de Bilitis. Paris: Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud Successeur, 1906. - In-8, 267 x 194: frontispiece, (3 ff.), IX, 181 pp, (1 f.), 7 plates, illustrated cover. Havana morocco, boards decorated with a gilt framing of fillets, a geometrical composition at the corners, bordered by a palmette and side compartments decorated with a palmette motif, spine ribbed and decorated in the same spirit, gilt filets and Greek roulette inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover and spine preserved (Pagnant). Another copy of the same edition. One of 60 copies on japon impérial or grand vélin d'Arches, here on japon impérial (no. 90), containing two states of the engravings, including the one before the letter with remarks. A very fine copy bound by Pagnant, enriched with the publication prospectus.

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LOUŸS (Pierre) - COLLIN (Raphaël). Aphrodite. Mœurs antiques. Paris: Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud, successeur, 1909. - Large in-8, 280 x 210: frontispiece, (2 ff.), VIII, 281 pp, (2 ff.), 4 plates, printed cover. Paperback, lined cover. Deluxe edition, corrected by the author, illustrated with 43 compositions by Raphaël COLLIN (1850-1916), wood-engraved in color by Ernest Florian, including one frontispiece and 4 plates. Edition of 497 copies; this is one of 65 on large imperial japon containing two states of the engravings, before the letter with remarks and with the letter (no. 124). Enriched with a very fine original drawing signed by Georges Rochegrosse, in pencil heightened with yellow, 190 x 142 on 281 x 205 mm gray paper, and an autograph letter signed by Pierre Louys to the publisher Ferroud, December 21, 1900, 3 pages and a half in-12, on the rights to his work Byblis: "It has been agreed between us that I give you until August 1, 1901 (nineteen hundred and one) the exclusive authorization to publish an edition of Byblis at a price higher than ten francs. After the above date, I will resume my previous rights. A very well preserved copy.

Starting price 400 EUR

TWELVE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS. Pierre LOUŸS (1870-1925). Aphrodite, mœurs antiques. Mercure de France, 1896. Large in-8, 332 pages, paperback, filled cover. Spine unstuck. First edition, with 12 original surrealist pencil drawings.... Joint: Karen ADLER. Mémoires de maîtrise. Approches du corps textuel et du corps photographique dans l'œuvre érotique de Pierre Louÿs, Paris IV, Sorbonne, 1995.

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