178 - Paul FORT. GEORGES DUHAMEL.

Paul FORT. GEORGES DUHAMEL. [Set of 3 titles with dedications]. -[Set of two books by Paul Fort, each with a dedication to his friend, the Academician and author Georges Duhamel]. FORT, Paul. Ile-de-France. Third edition. [&] Montlhéry-La-Bataille. Paris, Eugene Figuière, 1911 and 1912. 2 bound in-12 volumes, identical in binding. Period aubergine-colored imitation shagreen half-basane, ribbed spine (splits at the joints; upper edge of the second volume nearly detached). Included: Georges DUHAMEL. In the Footsteps of Salavin: Berthold Mahn VOX, in-8, paperback with heliogravures, with illustrated dust jacket. Dedicated to his children. 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 Arts Décoratifs and its 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.