42 - [BIBLIOPHILIA - GUEST BOOK]. A guest book from the 1940s–60s documenting the openings of exhibitions of illustrated books and bookbindings at the Blaizot bookstore.

[BIBLIOPHILIA - GUEST BOOK]. A guest book from the 1940s–60s documenting the openings of exhibitions of illustrated books and bookbindings at the Blaizot bookstore. Guest book, containing names and, in some cases, addresses, from various exhibitions of illustrated books and bookbindings held at the Blaizot bookstore. It includes autographs by Paul Eluard, Francis Ponge, Colette, Marcel Bloch, Paul Bonnet, and George Cretté... In-8 (165 x 250 mm), black half-percale, covers of speckled paper. 80 pages handwritten in pencil, pen, or ink. Binding is scuffed, with a tear on the spine; the seams are fragile in places; 2 loose leaves. Guest book from several exhibitions of illustrated books and bookbindings held between the 1940s and 1960s at the Blaizot bookstore. Numerous distinguished guests have written their names and addresses by hand. Among the many bookbinders, artists, writers, and bibliophiles, the names of Paul Eluard, Francis Ponge, Colette, Marcel Bloch, A.E. Marty, Pierre Brisson, Paul Bonnet, Desnoyer, Jacques Villon, Creuzevault, Thérèse Moncey, René Kieffer, and George Cretté. Among the various exhibitions—the subject of which is specified by a handwritten note or the printed invitation to the opening—are those featuring *The Book of Job*, illustrated by Edouard Goerg (1946); *Perrault’s Tales*, illustrated by Madeleine Luka; Jules Laforgue’s *Moralités légendaires* illustrated by Théo Schmied, Julien Green’s *Le Visionnaire* illustrated by André Marchand, *The Satyricon* illustrated by André Derain (opening on April 6, 1951), and Thérèse Moncey’s bookbindings (1958). Label from the Dupré et Cie bookstore on the inside back cover. A precious volume, reflecting Parisian literary and artistic life, bringing together the leading figures in bibliophilia of the era.