Peter Bichsel Fine Books
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Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Contes cruels. |
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Contes cruels.With 20 orig. etchings by Paul Maurice Vigoureux. 335, (3) pp. Large 8vo. Full brown morocco with blind tooled ornament on both boards and gilt stamped spine title (René Kieffer). Orig. printed wrappers bound-in. – Paris, René Kieffer, (1925). One of 450 numbered copies on vélin de Cuve, of a total limited edition of 500. Publisher’s handycraft binding of which we have seen variants. One of the important book illustrations by P. M Vigoureux (b. 1876), pupil of G. Moreau. – Bénézit VIII, 567. – First flyleaf cut away. Else clean and fine. – Best.-Nr. 18580 |
CHF 530.— |
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Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Comte de. Histoires souveraines. |
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Comte de. Histoires souveraines.Ornamental book design in green by Th. van Rysselberghe. 367, (5) pp. 4to. Orig. green wrappers. – Brussels, (A. Berqueman for) Edmond Deman, 1899. Edition originale. One of 10 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder after 50 copies on Japan paper. Collective edition of Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s (1840–1889) best novels, arranged by himself before his death. In his novels the author is inspired by the phantastic literature of E. A. Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann. – Spine of book block broken, wrappers with marginal defects. – Best.-Nr. 22745 |
CHF 120.— |