641 - DUNOYER de SEGONZAC, André Notes Taken at the Front. Paris: Société littéraire de France (printed by L. Pichon), 1917. Large quarto (stitched in several sections). Art Deco aubergine morocco leather, signed G[eneviève] de Léotard, 1931, covers divided by a vertical fillet, part palladium and part gilded; on the upper cover, two horizontal rows of raspberry-pink morocco strips separated by gilded fillets and palladium bands separated by fine raspberry-pink strips; on the lower cover, a single row on the spine, the decoration extending onto the smooth spine and incorporating the gilt title, linings of pink rep fabric framed by a pattern of rosewood box and black morocco leather strips, gilt and palladium fillets, endpapers of the same rep fabric, double endpapers of marbled paper, gilded title on small endpapers, title label from the original slipcase preserved (slight loss of gilding on one fillet, minimal signs of rubbing on the upper cover and at the top of the spine). In a lined slipcase. A very fine copy. First edition of this collection of 12 engraved drawings depicting scenes from the Great War, limited to 220 numbered copies, one of the 200 on vellum (no. 78). Superb binding in pure Art Deco style by G. de Léotard, professor at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Ref. The design is similar to the one he executed for Baudelaire’s *Petits poèmes en prose* (1928): *La reliure en France, Art nouveau - Art déco 1880-1940*, no. 102. Formerly in the collection of Maurice Boch, Palais des Beaux-Arts auction (Paul Van der Perre), October 20, 1962, lot 123 (lot card, receipt, and sale label).