160 - [CARTOONS and DRAWINGS].

[CARTOONS and DRAWINGS]. LOT of -ZOLA. LEBOURGEOIS. The Works of Zola. Paris, E. Bernard & Cie, 1898. Large 8vo, modern marbled cardboard binding. Two series of 16 color “watercolor-style” plates illustrating Zola’s novels by Henri Lebourgeois. Some of these caricatures allude to the Dreyfus Affair and are anti-Semitic. -WILLY. Eating Hay. Memoirs. WILLY square 8vo paperback with a dedicatory inscription on the title page from Henry-Parville Several black-and-white drawings. Limited edition. Spine chipped at the top; cover slightly soiled. -AROUET. A Journey into the Absurd. Square 16mo paperback. -SENNEP. 20 Fables by La Fontaine. Librairie de France Folio, paperback with color-illustrated cover. Limited edition, no. 872. Caricatures on large plates. -SISS. La Bourse. Chantelune. Loose sheets in a slightly soiled flap cover; large in-4 in black. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.