Lot n° 188
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300 - 400
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: 1 400EUR
[COLETTE].- WILLY. - Lot 188
[COLETTE].- WILLY.
Claudine at school. Claudine in Paris. Claudine at home. Claudine's leaving. P., Librairie Paul Ollendorff (le Mercure de France pour Claudine en ménage), 1900-1903, 4 vol. in-12, full morocco tobacco, spine with 5 fine nerves, author, title, gilt vintage, double gilt filet on the cups, gilt edges, counter plates in full Chinese blue morocco framed with a gilt filet, amber silk endpapers, illustrated cover (by Della-Sudda, Rassenfosse and Pascau) and spine cons, common case with compartments (binding signed P[ierre] L[ucien] Martin). Edit. orig. Ex. num. on laid paper from an unspecified edition for Claudine en ménage (n° 152). The first volume is enriched with a photographic reproduction of Colette and her bulldog Toby-Chien as well as a letter ms. de Willy [signed Henry Gauthiers-Villars] addressed to a journalist of the "Gazette". Very beautiful copies in a perfect binding by Pierre Lucien Martin (1913-1985), one of the most remarkable art bookbinders of the 20th century.
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