28 - COURTELINE (Georges).

COURTELINE (Georges). Tales. Paris, H. Piazza, 1931. In-8, red morocco leather, title in gold with black cold-stamped underlining on the front cover, plain spine with identical title, gilt top, inner border with a triple cold-stamped fillet framing the title, adorned with mosaic-style French flags at the corners; front endpapers of blue, white, and red tartan fabric; back endpapers of paper decorated with stenciled ants; covers and spine preserved; in slipcase (binding by René Hirsch). Illustrated by Jacques Touchet with a color frontispiece and title vignette, and two-tone half-page headpieces. One of 3,200 numbered copies on laid paper. "Tales of France and Elsewhere" collection. Spine slightly faded.