[GRUBER]. BAUDELAIRE (Ch.). LE SPLEEN DE PARIS. Éditions du Grenier à sel, 1954. In-folio on flaps, publisher's jacket. Some marginal freckling, publisher's slipcase missing, spine of sleeve evenly faded. EDITION ILLUSTRÉE with 15 full-page LITHOGRAPHIES by Francis GRUBER. This is the only book illustrated by the artist. Limited edition of 132 copies. ONE of 20 numbered on mother-of-pearl JAPAN, the only ones to include a SUITE in sanguine on Chine of the lithographs.

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