BARBEY d'AUREVILLY [Jules]. Le Dessous de cartes d'une parti - Lot 57

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BARBEY d'AUREVILLY [Jules]. Le Dessous de cartes d'une parti - Lot 57
BARBEY d'AUREVILLY [Jules]. Le Dessous de cartes d'une partie de Whist (Les Diaboliques). Drypoints by Malo Renault. Paris, La Connaissance, 1927, 4°, green half-maroquin with corners, spine with 5 threaded bands, author, title and date gilt, gilt head on small witnesses, fancy paper endpapers, cover illustrated with an engraved vignette and spine cons. (spine uniformly faded) (binding signed J.P. Miguet). Bookplate of Henri de Montfort, French journalist, historian, writer, Resistance fighter and press owner (1889-1965). First separate edition, with cover and eleven drypoint illustrations by Malo Renault. Limited edition of 129 copies, numbered 1/125 vélin de Rives (ex. no. 65), bearing a handwritten justification "Exemplaire / pour l'éditeur / René-Louis Doyon", enriched with a suite on Japon of the 9 color hors-texte (not mentioned in the justification). A good copy.
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