Miomandre Francis De Preface (8 results)

Cloth w/Paper Paste-down. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Marbled end papers, textblock is clean and tight. All page edges are crisp and sound. Cloth binding with some surface scuffing, illustrated paper paste down on the front, faint sunning to the spine. 55pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Reprint Edition. The Beautiful Book, A Code for the Collector by Maurice Robert & Frederic Warde A firm square copy with moderate shelf wear. "This is a facsimile of the original 1936 edition published by the Limited Editions Club, New York." - publisher's colophon at rear. Francis de Miomandre(Preface) Jacques LeClercq(Translator) (illustrator). BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xiii, 55 pp. ; 27 cm. ; ISBN: 0931480434 ; OCLC: 7330175 ; "This is a facsimile of the original 1936 edition published by the Limited Editions Club, New York." ; blue cloth with gold lettering and paste-down color illustration on front cover ; somewhat dusty and a trifle soiled, else VG. Book.…

Condition: Good. 4to. 55 pp. Printed orange striped paper-covered boards with blue paste-down title box and blue gilt spine and parchment paper dust jacket. Very good with tearing to jacket. First edition.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

in-8, broché, 136p. Illustré de 4 cartes dépliantes en fin de volume. Bon état.

Hardcover. Condition: g+ to vg. Limited First edition. Folio (16 1/2 x 14 3/4"). Unpaginated. [8]pp (Title, Preface, Table of Contents, Limitation page), 10 leaves (Plates), 10 leaves (Suite of the plates). Original gilt-tooled full vellum, with gold lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Title page in red and black lettering. Jean Auscher's striking series of 10 wash drawings highlighted in pochoir render a vivid, joyful, pittoresque, and at times acerbic vision of people dancing at Parisian nightclubs in the 1920s. The ten drawings are followed by a suite of the same plates without the pochoir highlighting. Each illustration measures appr. 8 1/2 x 11", and is tipped in onto heavy cardstock. Text pages on Japan paper. One of the 50 Hors Commerce copies this being the only known HC copy printed on Japan Nacre from, a total edition of 1,178. Minor and sporadic rubbing along edges of binding. Covers slightly warped. Text in French. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. About the artist: Jean Auscher (1896-c. 1950) was a 20th century French artist, caricaturist, and illustrator. Auscher was a pupil at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. His work was exhibited at Le Salon d'Automne and Le Salon des Tuileries between 1923 and 1933. His most characteristic work recorded the life "des Années Folles" in the Paris of the 1920s, including scenes in the casinos, gambling clubs and dance halls, evoking the decadence of the demi-monde. He also recorded the theatrical community with portraits of actors, some in their famous roles, such as Louis Jouvet as "Le Trouhadec indigne" and the clown Grock. His best-known work appeared in limited edition folios published by the artist himself ("La Faune des Dancings," 1925 and "Le Baccara," circa 1926). Many copies of the lithographs contained in these were heightened with watercolor. He contributed to the satirical journal "Le Rire"; he also illustrated works by Irène Némirovsky, who was rediscovered when "Suite Française" was republished in 2004. Andre Haguenauer ("Les Amertumes," 1925) and Alfred Machard ("Printemps Sexuel") provided Auscher with subject matter that was again towards the margins of conventional attitudes to sexuality. (From Wikipedia).…

Condition: Very Good. Marseille: Les Cahiers Du Sud. 1932. First French Edition, from a total print run of 1000 copies, this copy one of 100 copies printed on alfa and stamped "SP." Signed at front free endpaper by Asturias to French screenwriter and director Carlo Rim with brief inscription. Octavo. 135 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Toning and spotting to wraps with chipping and creasing to edges; small patch of loss at crown; creasing and split along spine. Brief separation at front hinge but binding holding. Occasional spotting and smudging to interior, most heavily at "Legende du Sombreron" though text legible throughout. Still a Very Good copy of the second edition of Asturias' first published book, an exploration of pre-Columbian Mayan myths and how they shaped Guatemalan identity. Enhanced with a brief but glowing preface published from a letter from the French poet Paul Valéry: "As for the legends themselves, they have left me rather drunk. Nothing has seemed to be me so strange--I mean more strange to me, to my ability to expect the unexpected--how these story-dream-poems confound so strangely the beliefs, the tales, and the mores of every age of an entire people." (p. [9], our translation). …

NA. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Folio, 41 by 37 cm. Four page preface -- a large folded sheet -- followed by 11 plates, all of which have touches of color, a few with slightly more extensive coloring. The color is consistently dusky and muted -- it doesn't undercut the shadowy, late night setting of nightclubs, which are their milieu. The coloring was rendered with pochoir (stenciling) onto the wash drawings. The artwork is on a thin paper mounted onto heavy brown card. We are lacking the table of contents and limitation page as well as the outer portfolio, but we have 11 plates, as opposed to the ten called for. Obviously the missing elements are a significant shortcoming. Of what we have, the preface is age toned, with a fair amount of foxing on its cover, but we'd say light markings. There is a little foxing on its other pages, but comparatively little. The plates are clean. The cards they are mounted onto have a waviness -- we regard this as a trivial issue. We'd say the plates are Near Fine, perhaps Fine, but given the missing parts, and the Preface's issues, we deem this suite of plates Very Good. Jean Auscher (illustrator).…