76 - SEGALEN (VICTOR)

SEGALEN (VICTOR) Les Immémoriaux. Drawings by Paul GAUGUIN, woodcuts by G.D. de MONFREID. Paris: G. Crès & Cie, 1921. In-8 paperback, cover illustrated after Gauguin, printed and gilded. Second edition; the first was published under the author’s real name, illustrated with woodcuts in the text by Georges-Daniel de Monfreid based on drawings by Paul Gauguin. No. 48 of 110 copies printed on Lafuma pure-fiber vellum, the only high-quality paper used, signed by the author’s wife, Yvonne Segalen, on June 30, 1921. Included are two copies of the same work published by Plon in 1956 in the Terre humaine collection, featuring 40 illustrations and 2 maps within the text and 25 illustrations as inserts, most of which are taken from the work of Paul Gauguin, paperback (one of which includes an illustrated dust jacket). Also included are: Letters from Paul GAUGUIN to Georges-Daniel de MONFREID. Preceded by a tribute by Victor SEGALEN. With 8 phototype reproductions. Paris, Éditions Georges Crès et Cie, 1919. In-12 br.