![Item #30485 [Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](/pictures/thumb/30485.jpg?v=1633973598)
Paris: J. Simon (printer), n.d. [ca. 1933]. No stated edition. Two unbound sheets. Two unused French billheads for Nestle chocolates. One is headed by a bucolic illustration of a milkmaid and dairy cow, printed in red and green. Its verso promotes the health advantages of sugar in the diet of..... More
Ecouen: Office de Tourisme d'Ecouen, 2012. Limited edition (1 of 1000 copies). Soft cover. 152p, many ills., many in color. In French. Trace of old price sticker on front cover. Very comprehensive survey of the French, British, and American painters and printmakers who frequented this lesser-known artists' colony just north..... More
Lyon: Braun, 1943. Walch, First edition. Soft cover. 16p, ca. 15 ills. Jacket rather torn. Despite having been born with a deformed leg and arm, Alsatian-born Charles Walch achieved artistic renown in France between the world wars. Besson was the first critic to champion him. Some of the paintings reproduced..... More
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... More
Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler, 1861. First edition. Soft cover. 212p, no ills. Institutional library discard, minimally marked. Housed in card-stock folder. First edition of this catalogue and visitor's guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of donors and subscribers, over 500 entries for..... More
New York: Cultural Division of the French Embassy, 1949. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 50p, no ills. except for tipped-on cover ill. Cover edges shelfworn, covers lightly browned, rust around staples. Reproduced typescript. Traveling loan exhibition of 242 20th-century examples of French book arts, divided into three parts: Several Great..... More
Geneva: Musee de l'Athenee, 1960. Dufy; Buffet. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, many ills., 1 in color. Exhibition announcement laid in. In French. Exhibition catalogue. Checklists of 37 works by Dufy and 37 works by Buffet, all chiefly oils. "Raoul Dufy ou le Triomphe de la Joie" by Courthion, reprinted..... More
Paris: Delestre & Coutanceau, 1903. First edition. Unbound sheets. 56 large plates, loose within soft covers, as issued. Covers worn and detached; plates are little edge-worn but generally very good. Plate album only of this sale of "livres modernes en editions de grand luxe [and] reliures d'art par les principaux..... More
![Item #25552 Raoul Dufy 1877-1953 [large memorial exhibition]. Bernard Dorival](/pictures/thumb/25552.jpg?v=1633973459)
Paris: Editions des Musees Nationaux, 1953. Dufy. First edition. Soft cover. 63p (ca. 260 items) + 40 black-and-white pls. In French. A large exhibition at the Musee National d'Art Moderne, long in the planning and mounted after Dufy's death. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default..... More
![Item #30383 Cahier d'Entrainement a l'Ecriture [handwriting manual]; Anglaise Penchee --...](/pictures/thumb/30383.jpg?v=1633973573)
Paris: Magnard, n.d. [1960s]. No stated edition. Sewn soft cover. 24p, several line ills. and many handwriting examples. Printed in grey. Covers and pages age-browned. French elementary student's exercise book for learning to write cursive lowercase letters in the "sloping English" style. Sixth and last in the series. Each spread..... More
Paris: Goupil, 1911. Brun, Louis Auguste. Limited edition. Hardcover (buckram with leather label, original wrappers bound in). 150p, many ills. No. 73 of 1000 copies. Focuses on Brun's early career--portraits, landscapes, and a chapter of interesting studies of horsemen and horsewomen astride and aside. More
Paris: Galerie Louise Leiris; printed by Draeger Freres, Montrouges, 1959. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., 36 pls. (5 of them tipped-in color). In French. Catalogue of 36 illustrated books published by Kahnweiler from 1909 to 1959, with summary details. Contributors include Stein, Picasso, Tzara, Satie, Braque, Masson, Apollinaire, and many..... More
Paris: Musee Jacquemart-Andre; printed by Busson, 1963. First edition. Paperbound. 56p + many pls., several in color. In French. Erratum slip laid in. Large exhibition of this fashionable Paris-based Italian painter (checklist of 270 items). Texts by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer and others. Dashing society portraits, landscapes in the Macchiaioli tradition, Venice..... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and ads (some in flat color). Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine press books, photography books, pocket books ("un probleme..... More
Bordeaux: Librairie Joseph Vincent, n.d. [ca. 1890-1900]. First edition. Soft cover. 16p (self wrs.), color ills. on covers and each page. Bookseller's catalogue of French children's picture books illustrated by Mars, Boutet de Monvel, Crafty, and Caran d'Ache, all published by Plon. Each page reproduces a page from one of..... More
Paris: Promodis, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 539p, many ills. + many color ills. on 38 plates. Chipped d.j. Masterful history of the 19th-century French book, with chapters by various experts. Covers book production, publishing and bookselling, the illustrated press, genres and reading audiences, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling will be..... More
Paris: Fernand Nathan, n.d. [1930s?]. No stated edition. 48p, 48 line ills. All printed in black and red. Small initials printed in some of the illustrations. Fair (covers and margins a little chewed; front cover stained, internally very good, unused). . Reading, spelling, and handwriting manual for French primary school..... More
![Item #30561 Arts et Metiers Graphiques 1 [with English summary]. Charles Peignot, director, Paul...](/pictures/thumb/30561.jpg?v=1638368522)
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, August 31, 1927. First edition. Soft cover. 66, viii pp., many ills. + 8 pls. (some in color, some tipped in). In French; 4-page English summaries of the articles laid in. Errata slip tipped onto inside back cover. First issue of this lavish journal devoted..... More
Paris: Solange Thierry, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 256p, ca. 300 ills., ca. 100 in color. In French. Survey of the career of this giant among dealers who championed so many modern artists from the 1910s on--Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger, Masson, Miro, and many more. The author worked with Kahnweiler for..... More
Paris: Sold at Librairie des Mathurins, 1900-1901. First edition. Three-quarter leather (front cover detached). Originally subtitled Revue Elegante et Pratique. Volume 1, numbers 1-12 (May 1900-April 1901). Variously paged, many ills. and plates. Plate 5 which should be in number 2 is misbound in number 3. The journal was retitled..... More
Paris: J. Claye, printer, 1864. No stated edition. Soft cover. 30p, 12 line ills. Official report to the government minister Vaillant on the condition of this cliffside Normandy castle, and recommendations for further repairs and restoration, in order of priority. It dominates the town of Falaise, birthplace of William the..... More
Paris: S.A.Georg, 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 65p + several large pls. of early 19th-century French bindings in various styles (mosaic, Empire, etc.), 1 in color. Another color plate reproduces a Gavarni lithograph. Bookseller's large-format catalogue. Disbound but complete. A good rebinding project, or just for reference... More
Paris: G. de Malherbe [printer], 1904. First edition. Stapled softcover. 8p, no ills. Checklist of 170 works of equestrian art, which were exhibited at the Grand Palais during the Paris concours hippique (horse show) of 1904. They included oils, watercolors, sculpture, and a few drawings. Among the artists, most of..... More
Paris: Andre Bonne, 1951. First trade edition. Limp paper-covered boards. Cover reads: Album du Marechal Petain. N.p., many gravure photos and other ills., many from Petain's personal collection. Marginal dampstain to last few pages. Jacket soiled, chipped. Celebration of the life of Petain--World War I hero of Verdun, Prime Minister..... More
