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(JUVENILE). [SCHMUTZER family]. ~ Die Geschichte von die beiden Babys. Berlin, c. 1902-1910.

A collection of children’s stories evidently written by a father (perhaps Herr Schmutzer, who’s stamp appears in each) for two young daughters.  more...

Each volume is a separate story telling of the girls’ adventures around the world. The text is in German throughout and every page bears a large illustration. A terrifying insight into one early-twentieth century father’s idea of a family entertainment.

Das buch von den beiden Babys. [n.d. c. 1902]. Small 4to (206 × 165 mm), pp. [22], alternating text and drawings. A tale of parental neglect: a family outing on a steam train goes terribly wrong.

‘...Laurentia und Emerentia Stutzlmeier’. 1902. Folio (330 × 210 mm), ff. [30] (the last blank) of which 28 each bear text and a large drawing. Card wrappers, loose in cloth backed boards. The tale of two young sisters lost in the forest during a family picnic. Rescued from a wolf by a kindly hermit they embark on a series of miraculous adventures with a cartload of magic pears and a menagerie of animals. Reunited with their parents they return to the woods to find the hermit dying; they bury him and he is borne aloft by angels.

‘Die gar wundersame geschichte von den beiden Babys in der Techanei’. 1904. Folio (325 × 210 mm), ff. [56], of which 54 each bear text and a large drawing. Crudely sew in cloth-backed boards, uniform with the above. The father takes his daughters out on an excursion, but an encounter with a witch separates the girls from him. Kidnapped in the witch’s house, they elude her protective snake, toad and cat and escape in a paper boat. Reunited with their father they embark on a series of terrifying adventures under his protection: he slaughters all assailants with a pistol, sword and bare hands, leaving a trail of bloodshed. A return to a derelict house scattered with the skeletons of pets and family members begins a new chapter, before the trio return home in a magical amphibious horse-drawn cart.

‘Die Geschichte von die beiden Babys und die Reise um die Erde’. 1910. Folio (340 × 205 mm), ff. [42], of which 41 each have text and a large drawing. Cloth backed boards. In this final volume Herr Scmutzer oversteps the mark. Taking his young daughters on a round-the-world trip in a self-propelled car (Gibraltar, Africa, Egypt, Persia, China, Siberia, The North Pole) he indulges in the worst kind of xenophobic violence against most of the inhabitants of the known world, all in the interests of the protection of his daughters..  see full details

£4000

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MIRBEAU, Octave. Alméry LOBEL-RICHE and COURBOULEIX, illustrators. ~ Journal d’une femme de chambre. Paris: Javal et Bourdeaux, 1926.

First edition.  more...

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.
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£600

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LIMBOUR, Georges. André BEAUDIN, illustrator. ~ Le Calligraphe. Paris: [Fequet et Baudier for] Galerie Louise Leiris, [ 1959].

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

£1500

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FARGUE, Léon-Paul. Luc-Albert Moreau, illustrator. ~ Music-hall. Paris: [Fequet et Baudier for] les Bibliophiles du Palais, 1948.

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

£400

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(PETRONIUS). DOUCET, Jérome. Louis-Édouard FOURNER, illustrator. ~ Pétrone (Introduction & fragments). Paris: [Lahure for] A. Ferroud, 1902.

First edition, dedicated to Jean Lorrain.  more...

One of 225 copies, this one number 116 on papier du Marais..  see full details

£200

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

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

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£75

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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...

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

£300

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