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Gros & Delettrez

229 - LOT OF MODERN ILLUSTRATED ART BOOKS.

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€180 - 200

Sale fees

30%

LOT OF MODERN ILLUSTRATED ART BOOKS. Lot of 7 titles. A few minor flaws on the spines or covers throughout the lot. -RODIN. *A la Venus de Milo*; *La Jeune Parque*, 1945. Paperback with the publisher’s flap cover. Limited edition printed on Lana vellum. Untrimmed, good condition. -THEATER. Imitation leather. *Trois actes* by Roger-Marx. Engravings by Pierre Bonnard. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1930. Limited edition. One of the copies printed on Lafuma vellum, no. 137. -The Face of Peace by Picasso and Eluard. Cercle d’Art, 1951. Color lithographs. Copy no. 902. -BOUSQUET. TAPIE. Max Ernst. René Drouin, 1950. Copy no. 9 with Max Ernst’s signature on the colophon. Without the color lithographs. Black-and-white illustrations and an atlas of photographic reproductions. Long in-4. With the publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with flaps. -DESNOS. Contrée. Etching by Picasso. Robert-J. Godet. Paris, 1944. Long in-4 format, in the publisher’s flap-covered dust jacket with its spider-patterned glassine paper. Without the etching. A few stains on the glassine. -René CHAR. *A la Santé du Serpent*. Illustrated by Joan Miró. GLM, loose sheets in publisher’s flap cover. Copy no. 32, with René Char’s signature on the margin. One of 50 on Arches vellum. Without the color lithograph. -Doubles d’Ombre. Poems and drawings by Paul Eluard and André Baudin. 1913–1943. NRF, large quarto, paperback. Spine restored; handwritten title on spine in felt-tip pen.

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Books & Manuscripts
Friday, October 30
02:00 PM
2, rue de Bérite
75006 Paris, France

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Gros & Delettrez +33 1 47 70 83 04 j.remaut@gros-delettrez.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 280,000 lots published

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