Number 16 of 180 copies on vélin d’Arches. An illustrated copy of Mirbeau’s 1900 novel about a maid Celestine, through her eyes the reader discovers the nauseating reality of the dominant classes and bourgeois society beneath the surface of their ‘honourable’ lives. The book includes suites of plates from two different illustrators, the main illustrator being Lobel-Riche, known for his work on books such as Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire and Salome, by Wilde. The second artist Courbouleix is responsible for the additional suite of etchings. .see full details
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, with an original watercolour for the frontispiece signed by Beaudin.more...
The text is by the Surrealist prose writer Limbour and is illustrated by Beaudin—a significant, if lesser-known, Parisian artist whose graphic abstraction evolved from Cubism through contact with Paul Éluard and collaborations with Robert Delaunay. He took inspiration from elements of daily life and reduced them to a symbolic essence, still recognisable as an object or figure. The etchings and watercolour here are fine examples of his sensitive use of colour and imaginative depiction of the human form. The book was issued by the Galerie Louise Leiris, an influential gallery founded in 1920 by Daniel Kahnweiler, who was forced to flee Paris under the occupation after turning the gallery over to his Catholic sister-in-law, Louise Leris. Number 27 of 100 on Rives (total edition 110)..see full details
FIRST EDITION with these illustrations, this copy printed for M.more...
Maurice de Ridder with a suite of 58 additional lithographs. Number 161 of 200 examples on vélin pur chiffon des Papeteries d’Arches. A book celebrating the Parisian music hall from its origins to the present with excellent lithographs, including The Hanley Brothers, Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker and various circus performers and jugglers..see full details
First edition with these plates, number 77 of 85 copies (’planches détruite’), subscriber’s name ‘Ed.more...
de la Germanière’ added in manuscript. Le Bonheur dans le crime was the third of Barbey d’Aubervilly six novelettes (1871) gathered under the collective title Les Diaboliques (1874) in which Madameoiselle Hauteclaire Stassin, a ravishing beauty, expert in fencing falls in love with a count; the two hatch a plan to murder the count’s wife, whereafter they live happily ever after, without guilt. The edition includes a curious facsimile of an autograph letter by the author on his ‘Never More’ headed paper beginning: ‘A qui relié mon livre et lié mon coeur.’.see full details
