LOT OF MODERN ILLUSTRATIONS.

-DUHAMEL. Les Plaisirs et les jeux. Brussels: Éditions du Nord, 1951. Square 8vo, 229 pp. Aubergine half-maroquin, ribbed spine, author’s name and title in gold, gilt head, cover and spine preserved (spine very slightly faded). Printed in an edition of 1,251 copies, one of 50 on Mitsu Japanese paper (no. 14). With the final colour plates, a colour suite on white vellum (13 plates) and a black-and-white suite on vellum (13 plates) of woodcuts by Nelly Degouy.

-PHILIPPE. Bubu de Montparnasse. Paris, Coulet & Faure, 1958. In-4, 155 pp. Modern fawn half-morocco, ribbed spine, author and title gilded, gilded head, untrimmed, cover preserved (spine slightly faded). Illustrated with 71 sketches by Albert Marquet. Limited edition of 835 copies. One of 35 on pearlescent Japanese paper (no. 35). A ‘street’ novel depicting the ‘underworld’, its women and pimps, the violence and the boulevards at the turn of the century. Where poverty crushes and money kills, the hero brings to life a tale of mad love between a man and a prostitute.

-de GOURMONT. Lettres d’un satyre. Paris, Crès (Les Maîtres du Livre), 1913. In-16, 200 pp. Orange morocco, ribbed spine with decoration, author and title in gold, place and date at the foot, gilded fillets with angular fleurons on the panels and covers, double gilded fillet on the headbands and footbands, endpapers edged in orange morocco decorated with a frame of gilded fillets, burgundy satin endpapers and half-leather, second endpaper of marbled paper, gilded edges on the fore-edges, cover and spine preserved [E Maylander R.D.] (spine slightly browned, very slight rubbing on the cap and bottom corners). First edition illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece by Vibert. Enriched with a woodcut suite printed on China paper by André Deslignières (probably the 1922 Plicque edition), comprising 35 plates; all signed by the artist in pencil. Also, on one plate, a small original signed drawing. A fine copy bound by Maylander.

-ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN. Madame Thérèse. Paris, Carteret, 1925. Fort in-8, (4) ff., 322 pp. (2) blank ff. Modern light brown half-morocco, raised ribbed spine, author and title gilded, gilt head, cover and spine preserved, untrimmed (spine faded, ribs rubbed, edges of plate 56 and p. 232 browned, plate facing p. 232 partly yellowed, very faint stains on the continuation of the vignette on the cover). Illustrated with 21 etchings by Julian-Damazy, hand-coloured. Comprising 18 plates and in-text illustrations, including a vignette on the cover and title page, one at the head, and a tailpiece. Text adorned with 13 illustrated initials, wood-engraved and enhanced with colour. Limited edition of 400 copies. One of the 100 on Japanese paper (no. 41), containing a set of black etchings with remarks also on Japanese paper.