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    The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1935 – 1938.

    The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly

    1. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Summer 1935, № 1, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1935. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 7-159 [160] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | SUMMER 1935 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 1 | NEW YORK, N. Y. ||
    2. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1935, № 2, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1935. (2 copies). Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 167-315 [315] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1935 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 2 | NEW YORK ||
    3. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1936, № 1, vol. 2. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 7-157 [158] [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1936 | VOLUME II • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 1 | NEW YORK ||
    4. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Winter 1936, № 3, vol. 1. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. (2 copies) Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, paper boards, serial pictorial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 323-480 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | WINTER 1936 | VOLUME I • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 3 | NEW YORK ||
    5. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1937, № 4, vol. 2. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1937. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 487-628 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1937 | VOLUME II • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 4 | NEW YORK ||
    6. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Summer 1938, № 3, vol. 3. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1938. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth new serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 335-476 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | SUMMER 1938 | VOLUME III • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 3 | NEW YORK ||
    7. The colophon (new series): A quarterly for bookmen / Autumn 1938, № 4, vol. 3. — NY: Pynson Printers, 1938. Hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, cloth new serial design; pp: [4 blanks] [6] 483-632 [4 blanks]. THE | COLOPHON | new series | A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN | {woodcut vignette} | — | AUTUMN 1938 | VOLUME III • NEW SERIES • NUMBER 4 | NEW YORK ||  
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  • Le Théâtre de la Nature. — Bruxelles, c. 1938.

    Album of 20 hand-coloured lithographs with a title page and a 'justification du tirage' page in an original snakeskin-clothed cardboard binder. Drawn on stone by Anonymous, attributed to Santippa. The theme of these pictures can be described as erotic humour.

    Edition: 200 copies printed in Bruxelles, c. 1938; this copy without a number.

    Watermarked wove paper: Word "Marais" and a flower.

    Dimensions: 24.3 x 29.3 cm According to J.-P. Dutel, the author of these images is Georges Hoffmann under the pseudonym Santippa. Honesterotica provides a different name: Gaston Hoffmann [Santippa] (French, 1883 – 1977), which seems adequate. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-70): 2496.
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  • Jean de La Fontaine. Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon / Établie par Louis Perceau et ornée d’illustrations en couleurs par Carlègle. — Paris: Georges Briffaut, 1932.

    Softcover, 242 x 165 mm, French flapped wrappers with black and red lettering to front and spine, top edge trimmed, pages uncut, printed on wove paper watermarked BFK Rives in italic script; illustrations in colour. Title: JEAN DE LA FONTAINE | LES AMOURS | DE | PSYCHÉ ET DE CUPIDON | ÉDITION CONFORME AUX TEXTES ORIGINAUX | ÉTABLIE PAR | LOUIS PERCEAU | ET ORNÉE D’ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | PAR | CARLÈGLE | LE LIVRE DU BIBLIOPHILE | GEORGES BRIFFAUT, ÉDITEUR | 4, RUE DE FURSTENBERG, PARIS | 1932 || Limited edition: 1230 copies of which this ic copy № 247. Collated 8vo: π4 1-24 3-48 58 *58 6-168 χ2, total 134 leaves, incl. frontispiece. Pagination: [8] 1-253 [254] [6]. Colophon: Le volume des Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon de La Fontaine a été achevé d'imprimer le quinze juin mil neuf cent trente-deux sur les presses du maitre imprimeur Coulouma, a Argenteul, H. Barthélemy étant directeur. Coloris de E. Charpentier, Paris.  
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  • Rudyard Kipling. The elephant’s child: Just so stories series / Pictured by F. Rojankovsky. — Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1942.

    Hardcover volume, 24 x 18 cm, pictorial paper over cardboard boards, pictorial endpapers, and pictorial DJ; pp.: [2] – pictorial t.p. / copyrignt+imprint + [26] unpaginated pages (13 leaves); in-text photomechanical b/w and coloured illustrations after Feodor Rojankovsky. DJ and front cover (pictorial): JUST SO STORIES SERIES | RUDYARD KIPLING | THE | ELEPHANT'S | CHILD | PICTURED BY F. ROJANKOVSKY || Title-page (pictorial): JUST SO STORIES SERIES | THE | ELEPHANT'S | CHILD | RUDYARD KIPLING | ILLUSTRATED BY | F. ROJANKOVSKY | GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, N. Y. || Contributors: Rudyard Kipling (British, 1865 – 1936) Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970)
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  • Voltaire. Candide / Illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. — New York: Williams, Belasco and Meyers, © 1930.

    Title (chain border): CANDIDE | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS BY | MAHLON BLAINE | {vignette} | NEW YORK | WILLIAMS, BELASCO | AND MEYERS || Title verso: (top) COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY WILLIAMS, BELASCO & MEYERS || (bottom) PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | BY J. J. LITTLE & IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK || Pagination:[1-6] 7-144, headpiece, frontispiece and 5 plates after Blaine’s pen drawings, within the pagination. Binding: 25 x 16.5 cm; blue cloth, blind-stamped frame, stamped-gilt lettering to front board and spine, thick wove paper, upper edge blue, fore-edge untrimmed, yellow vergé endpapers. Arouet, François-Marie [Voltaire] (French, 1694 – 1778)– author. Woolf, Herman Irwell [Chambers, Dorset] (British, 1890 – 1958) – translator. Blaine, Mahlon [Hudson, G. Christopher] (American, 1894 – 1969) – illustrator. Williams, Belasco and Meyers (NY) – publisher. J. J. Little & Ives Company (NY) – printer. See the Cameo Classic reprint [LIB-2777.2021].
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  • Paul Verlaine. Parallèlement / illustrations de Vertès. — Paris: Éditions de Cluny, 1934.

    Title-page (in red and black): PARALLELEMENT | PAR PAUL VERLAINE | Orné d’une lithographie de Vertès | Éditions de Cluny, Paris | 35 Rue de Seine 35 || Description: 18.8 x 12.4 cm, French flapped cream wrappers lettered to front and spine, 1st blank leaf, [1-2] h.t. in red / limitation, 3-4] t.p. / blank, 5-127 [128], last blank leaf, plus frontispiece (colour lithography) by Marcel Vertès. Edition: printed on December 5, 1934, by Ducros & Colas in Paris, limited to 2 copies on Japon Nacré (A and B); 3,000 copies on Vergé de Voiron (1-3,000); and several not for sale copies on Papier d’Arches, numbered with Roman numbers. This copy is №282. Contributors: Paul Verlaine (French, 1844 – 1896) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Maitres-imprimeurs Ducros et Colas (Paris) – printer. Éditions de Cluny (Paris) – publisher. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes
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  • Les vacances de Suzon: Journal secret. — S.l.: Aux dépens des Amis de Cupidon, s.d.

    French flapped tan wrappers, 24.3 x 18.8 cm, lettered in red “Les Vacances | de Suzon | Journal Secret | AUX DÉPENS | DES AMIS DE CUPIDON ||”, collation: 1 blank, 1 t.p., lettering similar to front wrapper, 1 blank, 24 leaves of plates with fac-simile ms text, 2 blanks; total 29 leaves; the said 24 leaves are made by glueing together pairs of 48 individual leaves, printed on one side. Dutel (1920-1970) № 2578, p. 406, describes the edition as a photocopy of  “Il s'agit d'une copie de Suzon en Vacances” printed in the late 1940s, the print run is limited to 300 copies. The edition is attributed to Leon Courbouleix (French, 1887 – 1972).
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  • The Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese prints: Vol. 1 & 2. — [Chicago]: Art Institute of Chicago, 1955 & 1965.

    Two volumes, each bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers, TEG, and matching red cloth slipcases with black lettering to front. Vol. 1: The Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese prints: The Primitives / Catalogue by Helen C. Gunsaulus. — [Chicago]: Art Institute of Chicago, 1955. Pagination: 1st leaf blank, 2nd leaf half-title, verso blank, [i, ii] – t.p. in red and black, copyright to verso, iii-vi, [vii] faux-title “The catalogue”, 1-284 [285] colophon, limitation: 500 numbered copies, this is № 476. Title-page: THE CLARENCE BUCKINGHAM | COLLECTION OF | JAPANESE PRINTS | The Primitives | CATALOGUE BY HELEN C. GUNSAULUS | THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO || Vol. 2: The Clarence Buckingham collection of Japanese prints: Volume 2 / Catalogue by Margaret O. Gentles. — [Chicago]: Art Institute of Chicago, 1965. Pagination: 1st leaf blank, 2nd leaf half-title, verso blank, [i, ii] – t.p. in red and black, copyright to verso, iii-vi, [vii] faux-title “The catalogue”,1-307 [2] blank/ colophon, limitation: 1000 copies (unnumbered). Title-page: VOLUME II | THE CLARENCE BUCKINGHAM | COLLECTION OF | JAPANESE PRINTS | Harunobu, Koryūsai, Shigemasa, their followers and contemporaries | Catalogue by Margaret O. Gentles | THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1965 || Contributors: Clarence Buckingham (American, 1854 – 1913) Helen C. Gunsaulus (American, 1886 – 1954) Margaret O. Gentles (American, 1905 – 1969)
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  • Э. Распэ. Приключения Мюнхаузена / пересказ К. Чуковского, илл. Густава Дорэ. — М.-Л.: Детгиз, 1945.

    Hardcover, 26.2 x 20.3 cm, quarter blue cloth over pictorial boards, pictorial endpapers, collated in-8vo, 1-58 64, pp.: [2] 3-87 [88], total 44 leaves with in-text woodcuts plus 8 leaves of colour plates (14 illustrations printed on both sides) and colour frontispiece (blank recto) after Gustave Doré. The story was written by Rudolf Erich Raspe in English and published anonymously in book form in Oxford in 1786 under the title Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his marvellous travels and campaigns in Russia, etc. The French translation from German of Gottfried August Bürger was performed by Théophile Gautier and published by Charles Furne in Paris in 1862 with illustrations after Gustave Doré – 158 wood engravings, including a frontispiece, 1 vignette on the title, 31 full-page plates and 125 vignettes in the text). Korney Chukovsky retold the Raspe story in Russian using the Būrger-Gautier version of the text, changing the order, time, and location of events. In addition, artist Yuri Syrnev (Ю. А. Сырнев) coloured Dore's woodcuts, and the book was born (first edition in 1928). Title-page (black and yellow earth): Э. РАСПЭ | ПРИКЛЮЧЕНИЯ | {vignette} | МЮНХАУЗЕНА | С ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИЯМИ | ГУСТАВА | ДОРЭ |  • | ДЛЯ | ДЕТЕЙ | ПЕРЕСКАЗАЛ К.ЧУКОВСКИЙ | • | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ДЕТСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | НАРКОМПРОСА РСФСР | Москва 1945 Ленинград || Colophon: Для младшего возраста | РАСКРАСКА ВКЛЕЕК, ТИТУЛ И ОБЛОЖКА | худ. Ю. Сырнева | Издание десятое || Edition: 10th Russian edition thus. Print run: 11,000 copies. Contributors: Rudolf Erich Raspe (German, 1736 – 1794) – author. Korney Chukovsky [Корней Иванович Чуковский, Николай Корнейчуков] (Russian, 1882 – 1969) – translator. Gustave Doré (French, 1832 – 1883) – artist. Юрий Аркадьевич Сырнев (Russian, 1905 – 1943) – artist. Fictional author: Baron Munchausen [Baron Münchhausen] / Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen (German, 1720 – 1797).  
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  • Muneshige Narazaki. Hiroshige: Famous views [広重] / English adaptation by Richard L. Gage (Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №5). — Tokyo; Palo-Alto, CA: Kodansha International, 1970.

    Hardcover volume from the series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, 26.3 x 19 cm, bound in unprimed canvas, red characters on black strip to front, red and black lettering to spine, tan flat endpapers, in a pictorial slipcase with series design (black lettering on silver spine); pp: [1-6]: h.t./frontis. (colour plate pasted in), t.p./imprint, contents/acknowledgements), 7-67 text, 27-30 map, 31-32 f.t./blank, 33-96 (65 plates w/captions). Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | HIROSHIGE | FAMOUS VIEWS | by Muneshige Narazaki | English adaptation by Richard L. Gage | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A | {vertical, between rules in ms 広重]} || Series: Masterworks of ukiyo-e, № 5. Edition: 1st edition ©1968, 2nd printing 1970. Muneshige Narazaki [楢崎 宗重] (Japanese, 1904 – 2001) – author. Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川 広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤 広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858) – artist. Richard L. Gage (American, b. 1934) – adaptation.
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  • Ленинград: архитектурно-планировочный обзор развития города. — М.-Л.: Искусство, 1943.

    Hardcover volume 36 x 27.5 cm, bound in grey cloth, gilt lettering ЛЕНИНГРАД to front board, red and black labels with gilt lettering, gilt compartments to flat spine, red endpapers with black and white border, pp.: [1-6] 7-402 [2], total 202 leaves with numerous b/w illustrations, plus frontispiece with pasted in b/w plate. Bookplate of Feodor Rojankovsky to front pastedown, ms inscription: “Дорогой Федя, дарю Вам на Ваше рождение эту книгу” signed “Ф. Рожанковский” Half-title (red on tan): ИЗДАНО В ЛЕНИНГРАДЕ | В ДНИ ВЕЛИКОЙ | ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ || Half-title verso (red on tan): ЛЕНИНГРАДСКИЙ ГОРОДСКОЙ  СОВЕТ | ДЕПУТАТОВ ТРУДЯЩИХСЯ | ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ КОМИТЕТ  | {vignette «plan»} | АРХИТЕКТУРНО-ПЛАНИРОВОЧНОЕ | УПРАВЛЕНИЕ | 1943 || Title-page (red on tan) ЛЕНИНГРАД | {vignette «Admiralty»} | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ИСКУССТВО» | ЛЕНИНГРАД – 1943 –  МОСКВА || Blue ink stamp to bottom right: Printed in Soviet Union. Title-page verso: РЕДАКЦИОННАЯ | КОЛЛЕГИЯ | Ответственный редактор | БАРАНОВ Н. В. | КАМЕНСКИЙ В. А. | МОРОЗОВ М. В. | РУБАНЕНКО Б. Р. | ФОМИН И. И. | Художник издания | КАМЕНСКИЙ В. А. | Технический редактор | АНИСИМОВ М. Н. Contents (red on tan): АРХИТЕКТУРНО-ПЛАНИРОВОЧНЫЙ | ОБЗОР РАЗВИТИЯ ГОРОДА | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА В XVIII ВЕКЕ | С. М. ЗЕМЦОВ | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА В XIX ВЕКЕ  | А. Г. ЯЦЕВИЧ | РАЗВИТИЕ ГОРОДА С 1917 ПО 1935 г. | Б. Р. РУБАНЕНКО | ГЕНЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ПЛАН РАЗВИТИЯ | ЛЕНИНГРАДА  | Н. В. БАРАНОВ | ИЛЛЮСТРАЦИИ | ГОРОДА || verso: {vignette} | ГЕНЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ПЛАН ГОРОДА ЛЕНИНГРАДА. || Print run: 2,500 copies. Provenance: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970). Contributors: Каменский, Валентин Александрович (Russian, 1907 – 1975) Земцов, Станислав [Исай] Маркович (1906 – ?) Яцевич, Андрей Григорьевич (Russian, 1887 – 1942) Рубаненко, Борис Рафаилович (Russian-Jewish, 1910 – 1985) Баранов, Николай Варфоломеевич (Russian, 1909 – 1989) Фомин, Игорь Иванович (Russian, 1904 ­– 1989)
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  • Fornicon by Tomi Ungerer. — NY: Grove Press, 1969©.

    Hardcover, 333 x 247 mm, black cloth with gilt facsimile to front board and gilt lettering to spine, aubergine dust jacket with white lettering and red facsimile over black panel to front and back, crimson endpapers, laid paper, unpaginated; pp.: [4] h.t./blank, t.p./imprint, [2] text by John Hollander, 61 leaves of plates; originally published in 1969 by Rhinoceros Press, New York, as a limited-edition portfolio with slipcase. Title-page: Fornicon | (in frame) BY TOMI UNGERER | GROVE PRESS  NEW YORK || Jean-Thomas [Tomi] Ungerer (French,1931 – 2019) John Hollander (American, 1929 – 2013)
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  • Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Ukiyo-e Prints, vol. 1, 2, and 3. — Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1960-63.

    Title: Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Ukiyo-e Prints [東京国立博物館図版目録 | 浮世絵版画編] (Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku | Ukiyoe hanga hen); Publisher: Tokyo National Museum [東京国立博物館] (Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan). Three volumes, 26.3 x 18.7 cm, uniformly bound in black cloth with white characters to front cover and spine. Title-page: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES OF | TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM | UKIYO-E PRINTS | <1 (2, 3) > | 東京国立博物館図版目録 | 浮世絵版画編 | < 上 (中, 下) > || Volume 1 [上]:  unpaginated 1 t.p., 2 colour plates, 1 contents, 70 (1-1354) – b/w plates, 1 + 48 paginated leaves (1-95 [96]) – text. Volume 2 [中]: unpaginated 1 t.p., 2 colour plates, 1 contents, 67 (1355-2493) – b/w plates + 33 paginated leaves (1-65 [66]) – text. Volume 3 [下]: unpaginated 1 t.p., 2 colour plates, 1 contents, 83 (2494-3926) – b/w plates + 35 paginated leaves (1-69 [70]) – text. Black and white photomechanical reproduction of almost four thousand woodblock prints with titles by the artist and in chronological order.
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  • The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros. Part 1. — North Hollywood: Brandon House (Copyright 1968 by the Cythera Press) and part 2. — New York: Cythera Press. — Preface by Wilhelm M. Busch. Biography by Johann Pilz. — 238 pp.

    The amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros / Part I and II. — North Hollywood: Brandon house, [1968?]

    Title: The amorous drawings | {vignette} | of the | Marquis von Bayros | Part I | BRANDON HOUSE | NORTH HOLLYWOOD || Title page verso: A BRANDON HOUSE BOOK | PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH | CYTHERA PRESS | COPYRIGHT 1968 BY CYTHERA PRESS | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. | MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA || Pagination: [1-3] 4-238 [2], 292 illustrations within pagination. Content: Preface by Wilhelm M. Busch, biography of Von Bayros by Johann Pilz, two essays by Von Bayros; 292 illustrations by Marquis Franz von Bayros; Part I and II in one volume. Exterior: 28 x 22 cm, publisher's green wrappers with yellow lettering and fac-simile drawing of von Bayros to cover, lettering to spine. A re-print softcover edition of the original Cythera Press 1st edition, see: LIB-2246.2019
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  • Spaddy [Johannes Gros]. Dévergondages / Illustr. Féodor Rojankowski. — Bruxelles [i.e. Nice]: Aux Dépens d’un Amateur, 1948.

    Description: single volume 24.5 x 19 cm, collated 4to, bound by a previous owner in quarter red morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, with gilt lettering in compartments: "SPADDY | DÉVERGONDAGES", red marbled endpapers. Printed on wove paper with watermark “RIVES”. Title-page: SPADDY | DÉVERGONDAGES | BRUXELLES | Aux Dépens d'un Amateur | 1948 || Pagination: [4] – blank, [1, 2] – h.t. / limitation, [3, 4] – t.p. / blank, 5-151 [152] – blank, [4] – blank; uncut, illustrated with 16 hand-coloured lithographs extraneous to collation after watercolours by Féodor Rojankowski [Rojan]. Table of contents on p. 151. Limitation: 250 copies of which №№ I – XVI with original watercolour and b/w suite of plates and №№ 17-250 on Rives paper with coloured lithography; this copy is № 100 of 234 Rives paper copies. Catalogue Raisonné: J.-P. Dutel (1920–1970) № 1389 / p. 128.
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  • John Carter. Taste and technique in book-collecting. — Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1949.

    Title: TASTE & TECHNIQUE | IN | BOOK-COLLECTING | A study of recent developments in | Great Britain and the | United States | BY | JOHN CARTER | SANDERS READER IN BIBLIOGRAPHY | AND SOMETIME SCHOLAR OF | KING’S COLLEGE | {space} | {publisher’s device} | CAMBRIDGE | AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1949 || Half-title: TASTE & TECHNIQUE | IN | BOOK-COLLECTING | The Sanders Lectures in Bibliography | 1947 || Pagination: [i-vi] vii-x [xi] [xii blank], 1-201 [202 blank] [2] – advert. / blank, total 12+202+2=216 pages. Collation: 8vo; π6 1-128, 136, total 108 leaves. Binding: 22.5 x 15 cm, red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lettered dust-jacket with armorial publisher’s device in red, price-clipped. Edition: 1st edition (1948), 2nd impression, corrected (1949). Contributors: Carter, John Waynflete (British, 1905 – 1975) – author. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge) – publisher. Brooke Crutchley – printer.
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  • Colette. La vagabonde / Lithographies en couleurs de Marcel Vertès. — Paris: La cité des livres, 1927.

    Title-page: COLETTE | LA | VAGABONDE | LITHOGRAPHIES EN COULEURS | DE MARCEL VERTÈS | PARIS | A LA CITE DES LIVRES |—| M DCCCC XXVII || Binding: French flapped wrappers 28.5 x 22.5 cm, in glassine dustcover, front wrapper lettered similarly to title-page but in red and black: COLETTE | LA | VAGABONDE | LITHOGRAPHIES EN COULEURS | DE MARCEL VERTÈS | PARIS | A LA CITE DES LIVRES |—| M DCCCC XXVII ||, in a red marbled cardboard folder 29 x 23 cm with paper label to spine, slipcase missing. Pagination: [2] 1st leaf blank, [2] h.t. / limitation, [2] t.p. / blank, [2] d.t.p. /blank, [3] 4-277 [278 blank], [4 colophon], ils. Collation: π3 1-354 χ1, plus 15 leaves of plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece, chromolithographs by Marcel Vertès. Edition: Limited edition of 305 copies of which this is № 15 (out of numbers 10-24) printed on Japon Impérial paper with three additional suites of plates in black, sanguine and colour, plus 4 refused plates. Printed on the 15th of September 1927: text by Robert Coulouma (Argenteuil, director H. Barthélemy), lithographs by E. Duchatel (Paris) and published by La cité des livres. Missing black versions of LIB-2892.2021-5 and LIB-2892.2021-10 (43 out of 45 prints in place). Refused plates: Plates in black, sanguine, and colour. Contributors: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette [a.k.a. Colette] (French, 1873 – 1954) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes
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  • The erotic drawings of Mihály Zichy : Forty drawings. — New York: Grove Press Inc., 1969. — [2 intro.] + [40 ill.]

    The erotic drawings of Mihály Zichy: Forty drawings. — New York: Grove Press Inc., 1969.

    Description: Oblong volume, 22 x 27 cm, quarter cloth over marbled boards with gilt Zichy’s signature fac-simile and gilt lettering to spine in dust jacket lettered “The | Erotic | Drawings | of | Mihály | Zichy” on both front and back, blurbs on flaps, unclipped; printed on wove paper, unpaginated. Title-page: THE EROTIC DRAWINGS | OF | MIHÁLY ZICHY | Forty drawings | GROVE PRESS INC. | NEW YORK || Collation: (1) h.t., (1) t.p./copyright, (1) Preface; (40) leaves of plates, (1) blank; total 44 leaves. The plates are photomechanical offset copies made from the photogravures of 1911 Leipzig private press edition [SVE-0501.2021] of 300 copies, the copy used for reprint was № 277; photogravures were made from the original watercolours and crayon drawings produced by Zichy in 1874-1879; the original album of 51 compositions was sold at Christie’s sale of Gérard Nordmann collection on December 14-15, 2006 in Paris. Ref.: Bibliothèque érotique: Gérard Nordmann; Livres, manuscrits, dessins, photographies du XVIe au XXe siècle / Catalogues de ventes, seconde partie. — Paris: Christie's, 2006; p. 280, № 564 (drawings); №  565 photogravures [LIB-2810.2021]. See a copy of the Leipzig album № 285 in this collection [SVE-0501.2021].
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