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[20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE. AUTHOR'S DEDICATIONS]. LARGE COLLECTION OF MODERN WORKS, ALL WITH AUTHOR'S DEDICATIONS. Paperback or hardcover. All categories, in-12 or in-8 formats. Good condition overall. Including: BAYLE, Luc Marie. Le Voyage de la nouvelle incomprise. Paris, Editions Ozanne, 1753. In-4, cream-colored publisher’s cardboard binding (spine and edges of covers worn). Author’s autograph copy adorned with a small drawing. 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.