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JAMMES, Francis. Henri GEORGET, illustrator. ~ Pomme d’anis. Paris: [Nancy: Berger-Levrault for] Mercure de France [25 March], 1914.

First edition with Georget’s charming coloured illustrations. more...

£300

BEISSIER, Fernand and Mario COSTA. ~ Histoire d’un Pierrot. Reproduction cinématographique de la pantomime musicale. Rome: [G. Pacca & Co, 1914].

The illustrated libretto accompanying the Italian silent film, made by Costa after Beisser’s pantomime play of the 1890s. more...

£100

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ALLARD, Roger. Luc-Albert MOREAU, illustrator. ~ Les Feux de la Saint-Jean. Poème orné de cinq dessins. Paris: Camille Bloch, 1920.

First edition, inscribed by Allard, illustrated throughout with Moreau’s Cubist-tinged female nudes. more...

£100

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FRANCE, Anatole. SIMÉON, illustrator. ~ Marguerite. Trente-cinq bois originaux. Paris: [Loches: Daigremont for] André Coq, 1920.

First edition in book form, one of 21 copies on japon impérial with the suite on chine, this copy with an additional drawing, printed for the publisher. more...

£150

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CHRISTIAN-LE-THÉLÉMITE. Chéri HÉROUARD, illustrator. ~ Angelicus et Pudica. Paris: Renaissance Universelle, [ 1921].

First edition, one of 540 copies. more...

£75

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BERNOUARD, François. Paul IRIBE, illustrator. ~ Le Co[n]valescent et la Berlue rayonnante orné de plusieurs dessins inédits de Monsieur Paul Iribe. Paris: [François Bernouard] à la belle Édition, 1917.

First edition, one of 365 copies. more...

£150

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TIELEMANS, Émile Henry. ~ Les Ex-libris d’Em. H. Tielemans. Brussels: Biblion, [ 1921].

First edition, the second of 5 collections of Tielemans’s iconic avant-garde bookplates, containing plates for himself, Marcel Wyseur, Étienne Rousseau, ‘H. more...

£150

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(MARIANI) CLARÉTIE, Jules. Albert, ROBIDA, illustrator. ~ Explication. Paris: Librairie illustré, 1894.

First editions of two very scare annuals printed for Angelo Mariani, novelettes with a partially graphic narrative extolling the virtues of his wildly popular coca wine (Vin Mariani). more...

£500

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EGOROFF, Marie. ~ Neuf Dessins mystiques… Paris: Librairie des Sciences psychiques, 1911.

Madame Egoroff was reputed to make ‘automatic’ drawings under the direction of spirits. more...

£300

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HOUSSAYE, Arsène, editor. Maurice NEUMONT, illustrator. ~ Cantiques d’amour… Poèsies. Paris: G. Richard for Le Journal, Émile Bouchard, [ 1894].

First edition of this illustrated collection of 12 lightly erotic poems by Alexandre Dumas, Armand Silvestre, Catulle Mendès, Jean Richepin, André Theuriet and Robert de Montesquiou, among others. more...

£200

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VITTA, Émile. Adolphe WILLETTE and BOUTET DE MONVILLE, illustrator. ~ À travers un Vitrail. Poésies. Paris: [Schmidt for] Léon Vanier, 1892.

First edition, inscribed, with an additional note from the author on a pasted slip opposite one of the Willette illustrations: ‘Cette composition passe pour une des plus belles de Willette. more...

£200

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BARBEY D’AUREVILLY, Jules. ~ Le Bonheur dans le crime. Préface par Paul Festugière. [Evreux, Charles Hériseey], 1897

First edition with these plates, number 77 of 85 copies (’planches détruite’), subscriber’s name ‘Ed. more...

£300

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FRAGEROLLE, Georges. Georges AURIOL, illustrator. ~ L’Enfant-Dieu. Recueil de vieux noëls des pays de Champagne & de Lorraine. Restitués et mis en musique. Paris: Enoch & C[ompagn]ie and Ernest Flammarion, [ 1898].

First edition. more...

£250

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ROSTAND, Edmond. ~ La Princesse Lointaine. Pièce en quatre actes, en vers représentée pour la première fois à Paris, le 5 Avril 1895, sur le théatre de la Renaissance. Illustrations… de MM. A.-F. Gorguet, Georges Rochegrosse, Lévy-Dhurmer. Paris: Pierre Lafitte & Compagnie, [ 1910].

First edition with these illustrations, number 57 of 60 copies on Japon. more...

£200

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PAILLERON, Édouard. ~ La Poupée… exemplaire unique. Paris: Imprimerie de “l’Illustration”, 1883.

First edition: A children’s story written for the author’s daughter and her doll: ‘Exemplaire unique’, but actually one of two recorded copies (the other in the Bibliothèque nationale). more...

£400

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