REF. 0830

Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux

Anatole France
Publisher
Calmann-Lévy
Place
Paris
Date
[1909]
Format
In-8 (195 x 138 mm)
Binding
Lucien Durvand
Collation
(3) ff., 306 pp., (2) ff.
Edition
Limited issue copy
Language
French
Century
20th century
Distinctive features
From the "AL" library (unidentified)

Condition report

Very good

€600
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FRANCE, Anatole. Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux.
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1909].

Octavo (195 x 138 mm). (3) ff., 306 pp., (2) ff. Original wrappers and spine preserved.
Full green morocco, covers framed with a triple gilt fillet, raised bands, compartments framed by a triple gilt fillet, author, title and date in gilt, double gilt fillet to board edges, top edge gilt over witnesses, turn-ins decorated with a wide gilt dentelle, untrimmed (Durvand).

First edition, on Holland paper, with a letter by Anatole France.
One of 125 copies on Holland paper, normally numbered, but this one unnumbered and inscribed for Michel Manzi, the printer-publisher associated with Joyant.

The accompanying letter, one and a half pages on a bifolium, is frayed with slight loss to the text on the first leaf. An etched portrait of Anatole France on a loose leaf is also included.

From an unidentified library, "AL"; its bookplate.
A handsome copy, joints slightly worn.