215 - SEM.

SEM. The Real & the Fake Chic. Paris, under the Artistic Direction of SEM by “Succès,” 1914. Folio (45.5 x 31.5 cm), (3) ff. advertisements (the pasted-in photographs have been removed from three pages), (4) loose advertising leaflets with titles in embossed gold lettering, (22) pp. of text with numerous vignettes, 16 plates on 8 ff., (4) ff., including 3 advertisements. Cream-colored publisher’s folder illustrated with a large pair of gilded, embossed scissors (a few foxing spots and slightly creased edges on the cover). Includes advertising inserts at the beginning and end of the book. A fine copy. A standard reference work. Complete. Copy enhanced with 4 loose advertising inserts for Renault, Parfums de Coty, l’Orfèvrerie de Boin-Taburet, and Les Ameublements de Jansen, with titles in embossed gold lettering, two of which are stencil-colored. An illustrated and satirical album published in Paris in 1914 by the publisher Succès, under the artistic direction and with drawings by the famous caricaturist Sem (Georges Goursat) WOMEN’S FASHION. ART DECO. "A very beautiful album of humorous texts and drawings on women’s fashion by the columnist, illustrator, and caricaturist Sem. Each page of text is adorned with one or more drawings in black and white or color, and the 17 center pages are illustrated with beautiful full-page color compositions. Complete with the first 3 and last 3 leaves, on heavy paper, bearing illustrated advertisements that appear to be pasted on?"