ALEXEIEFF, Alexandre, illustrator. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. ~ Petit Poèmes en prose. Paris: [Firmin-Didot for] La Société du Livre d’Art, 1934.
4to (280 × 225 mm), pp. [8], 168, [4], 30 etched plates by Alexeieff, one title vignette, one cul de lampe, tissue guards. Very occasional unobtrusive isolated foxing, usually to an extreme margin, a tissue guard or plate verso. Original wrapper and slipcase. A very good copy.
Number 104 of 148 copies, this one for Monsieur Pierre Lehideux, with superb illustrations by the Russian-born Montparnasse artist Alexeieff, known for pioneering pinscreen animation in the 1930s. Carteret 219.
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