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Allatini, Eric. Wegener, Gerda. Sur talons rouges. Contes.

With 12 colour etchings on plates by Gerda Wegener. 152, (4) pp. 4to. Contemp. green half morocco over 5 raised bands. Orig. printed wrappers bound in. – Paris, G. Briffaut, (1929).

Edition originale. One of 400 numbered copies on vergé d’Arches of a total limited edition of 449. Appealing composite work of the Danish art nouveau artist and illustrator Gerda Wegener (1886–1940) and the French author Eric Allatini (1886-1943), who was arrested by the Nazis who killed him in Auschwitz. – Fine copy in an appropriate contemporary private binding. – Best.-Nr. 26494