Sauvage Sylvain Illus (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Sylvain Sauvage, Illus. (illustrator).

First Limited Collector's Easton Press Edition, Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage with full page colour watercolours and black and white throughout the text. The colour frontispiece of Voltaie by Charles Alleberry. 8vo, publisher's original gray morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt on the spine and covers, silk endpapers, a.e.g. xix, 131 pp. A pristine copy, as mint. A PRISTINE EXAMPLE OF THE LIMITED, ILLUSTRATED EASTON EDITION. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. With an Introduction by Paul Morand. Candide was first published by Caron de Beaumarchais in 1759. Since that time it has been published in over a dozen languages. This collector's edition was published by advance reservation exclusively for subscribers to The Easton Press collection of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". The frontispiece portrait was specially commissioned for this edition.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nice, France: Editions de la Maison Francaise, 1948. CLXXXII pp. 29 x 24 cm. Unbound in the French style in a stiff card cover with glassine dust wrapper, in a paper-covered board portfolio, housed in a slipcase. Slipcase has been mildly crushed from being stored flat with excessive weight resting on it; extremities have been rubbed; chipping to edges of paper covering the boards. Rubbing and splitting to the joints of the portfolio; dampstain to the middle of the spine. Glassine wrapper is in fantastic shape, although it appears to be lightly age-toned. Unbound leaves are in fine condition; color illustrations are vibrant. Internally a lovely copy. Of 300 copies numbered I to CCC for distribution in the United States and abroad, this is copy number LVIII. Unbound. Very Good.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Sixty [60] loose woodblock-illustrated leaves, 6-by-8 inches, in tissuey illustrated wraps. No text, a series of images by Sylvain Sauvage -- bright, clean, and suitable for framing (with just the occasional light rubbing along the edges). Covers a bit dusty and foxed, chipped along spine and edges. Scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Half gilt-ruled morocco and marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Number 977 from a limited edition of 1500 copies "sur velin bibliophile," with 29 colored (pochoir?) wood-engravings. Spine sunned; light scuffing along joints and edges of boards; a little scattered foxing here and there, mostly marginal or confined to prelims and terminals. Plates are bright and lovely.…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Original pictorial wraps printed in red and black, edges uncut, in glassine dust jacket. Numerous in-text colored illustrations. Number 16 from a Limited Edition of 75 copies printed on Rives paper, and with an additional suite of 24 plates, printed in b/w, and in a simple printed folder ("Suite en noir des gravures de Sylvain Sauvage ayant ser vi a l'illustration de Manon Lescaut"). Perhaps missing a publisher's box or slipcase, but a lovely, fine copy.…

LIMITED EDITION (138/287) "sur vergé de Montval". 4to (28 x 22 cm). pp.153. Contemporary full red crushed morocco by Semet & Plumelle, raised bands, simple gilt lettering to spine, blue morocco doublures, red satin followed by marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, in matching morocco edged marbled paper covered card slipcase. Frontispiece and 33 illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage, engraved on wood and printed by Pierre Bouchet. A fine copy. The Songs of Bilitis is a collection of erotic, essentially lesbian, poetry by Pierre Louÿs first published in Paris in 1894, claiming that he had translated the original poetry from Ancient Greek. The poems are in the manner of Sappho; the collection's introduction claims they were found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus, written by a woman of Ancient Greece called Bilitis (Greek: ), a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho's to whose life Louÿs dedicated a small section of the book. On publication, the volume deceived even expert scholars.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. Limited Edition of 2500 copies, these copies being #312. Ali Baba signed by Edward Ardizzone and Ugly Duckling signed by translator Jean Hersholt and illustrator Everett Gee Jackson at rear; Sleeping Beauty unsigned as issued. Three quarto volumes. Color illustrations. Glassine dust jackets. Cloth boards housed in publisher's slipcase. Light edgewear and a few chips to edges of jackets, with larger patch of loss to top front corner of Ali Baba. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase split with exposure along edges and shows general rubbing and scuffing, but remains intact and structurally sound. A Very Good set.…