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DIGNIMONT André (1891-1965) - GALTIER-BOISSIÈRE Jean (1891-1966)

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DIGNIMONT André (1891-1965) - GALTIER-BOISSIÈRE Jean (1891-1966)
- La Bonne Vie. Drawings by André Dignimont.
Paris, Jonquières et Cie, 1928. Small in-4 (248 x 198 mm), 207 pp.
Half orange morocco with corners, smooth spine titled in gold and decorated with a champagne bucket with cold edges, gilt head, pink marbled paper endpapers, cover and spine preserved (binding signed P.-L. Martin).
First edition on large paper illustrated with 16 off-text colour figures and headbands by André DIGNIMONT. Edition of 575 copies, this one of the 545 on Montgolfier vellum (n° 407).
Author's autograph letter on the title page.
This copy is enriched with an original pen and watercolour drawing by Dignimont representing a couple sitting at a gaming table, with an autograph dedication signed: "in memory of the good life [...]
Marthe Richard hoping that she will come back".
Attached is a gouache signed at the bottom left by J. Galtier-Boissière representing a ball scene (19 x 24 cm)
A good copy (foxing on the title page, and scattered on the drawing, otherwise good general condition).