![Item #30485 [Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30485.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
Leipzig: Rowohlt, 1911. First edition thus. Hardcover. viii, 282p, no ills. Printed with light green headings. No jacket, if issued. An elegant presentation, typeset and printed by the Leipzig firm of Drugulin in one of its handsome typefaces. The colophon reads "Ce livre . . . est le neuvieme Drugulin..... 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
Fribourg: Edita-Denoel, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 200p, ca. 300 ills., 120 in color. In French. Overview of the leading 19th-century and early 20th-century French glass artists and the development of the techniques and styles of their vases, bowls, bottles, tableware, etc. Large and heavy; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep..... 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
Montreal: Editions Fides, n.d. [1942]. Charlier, Henri. First edition. Soft cover. 130p + 24 ills. Collection of texts by Charlier on religious painting, sculpture, embroidery, and stained glass, followed by illustrations of his work in these media. Introduction by Pierre Ladoue. The Cahiers d'Arca series was aimed at a Catholic..... 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
Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, n.d. [1920]. First edition. Soft cover. [10]p, no ills. Pages age browned. Published to promote Rosenbach's offering of these books. With contemporary penciling, often noting buyer and price. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate... More
Paris: Delestre & Coutanceau, 1903. First edition. Unbound sheets. 56 large plates, loose within soft covers, as issued. Covers worn and detached; plates are a little edge-worn but generally very good. Plate album only of part 1 of this sale of "livres modernes en editions de grand luxe [and] reliures..... More
![Item #25552 Raoul Dufy 1877-1953 [large memorial exhibition]. Bernard Dorival](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25552.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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 --...](https://bledsoebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30383.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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: CNRS Editions, 2004. Bosse, Abraham. First edition. Soft cover. 317p + 38 ills. Detailed study of the influential French etcher-illustrator and his times--his life, the world of printmaking and illustration, the Academy and his difficulties with it, his study of perspective and theory, etc. Scarce in the U.S.... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and printing-related 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..... More
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1979. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, many ills. + 4 color pls. and color cover. In French. Catalogue of the huge exhibition mounted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Diaghilev's death, covering his entire career. Over 400 costumes, photos, manuscripts, scores, and other artifacts, drawn mostly from..... 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: Robert de Jonghe and Agnes Vienot, September 2011. First edition. Soft cover. 60p, several large ills. Bookseller catalogue offering 404 books in all fields of food, drink, and the culinary arts. Emphasis on France and French books. A joint enterprise of Robert de Jonghe (Librairie Le Festin de Babette..... 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
New York: George Braziller / Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974. Limbourg. First edition. Hardcover. Text volume: 544p. Plate volume: 898 ills., 35 in color. Jackets faded, shelf-soiled, and lightly chipped. Photo is much too pale. Magisterial study of the magnificent illuminated manuscripts The Belles Heures and The Tres Riches Heures, and..... 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
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1954. First edition. Soft cover. 98p, several ills. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 477 lots, a few ills. of bindings by Pierre Legrain and P.L. Martin, among others. Rose was an English artist "vigorously championed by Gertrude Stein" (Wiki). Can be sent outside..... More
