Francis de miomandre preface by (4 risultati)

Cloth w/Paper Paste-down. Condizione: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Marbled end papers, textblock is clean and tight. All page edges are crisp and sound. Cloth binding with some surface scuffing, illustrated paper paste down on the front, faint sunning to the spine. 55pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. xiii, 55 pp. ; 27 cm. ; ISBN: 0931480434 ; OCLC: 7330175 ; "This is a facsimile of the original 1936 edition published by the Limited Editions Club, New York." ; blue cloth with gold lettering and paste-down color illustration on front cover ; somewhat dusty and a trifle soiled, else VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: g+ to vg. Limited First edition. Folio (16 1/2 x 14 3/4"). Unpaginated. [8]pp (Title, Preface, Table of Contents, Limitation page), 10 leaves (Plates), 10 leaves (Suite of the plates). Original gilt-tooled full vellum, with gold lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Title page in red and black lettering. Jean Auscher's striking series of 10 wash drawings highlighted in pochoir render a vivid, joyful, pittoresque, and at times acerbic vision of people dancing at Parisian nightclubs in the 1920s. The ten drawings are followed by a suite of the same plates without the pochoir highlighting. Each illustration measures appr. 8 1/2 x 11", and is tipped in onto heavy cardstock. Text pages on Japan paper. One of the 50 Hors Commerce copies this being the only known HC copy printed on Japan Nacre from, a total edition of 1,178. Minor and sporadic rubbing along edges of binding. Covers slightly warped. Text in French. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. About the artist: Jean Auscher (1896-c. 1950) was a 20th century French artist, caricaturist, and illustrator. Auscher was a pupil at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. His work was exhibited at Le Salon d'Automne and Le Salon des Tuileries between 1923 and 1933. His most characteristic work recorded the life "des Années Folles" in the Paris of the 1920s, including scenes in the casinos, gambling clubs and dance halls, evoking the decadence of the demi-monde. He also recorded the theatrical community with portraits of actors, some in their famous roles, such as Louis Jouvet as "Le Trouhadec indigne" and the clown Grock. His best-known work appeared in limited edition folios published by the artist himself ("La Faune des Dancings," 1925 and "Le Baccara," circa 1926). Many copies of the lithographs contained in these were heightened with watercolor. He contributed to the satirical journal "Le Rire"; he also illustrated works by Irène Némirovsky, who was rediscovered when "Suite Française" was republished in 2004. Andre Haguenauer ("Les Amertumes," 1925) and Alfred Machard ("Printemps Sexuel") provided Auscher with subject matter that was again towards the margins of conventional attitudes to sexuality. (From Wikipedia).…

NA. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Folio, 41 by 37 cm. Four page preface -- a large folded sheet -- followed by 11 plates, all of which have touches of color, a few with slightly more extensive coloring. The color is consistently dusky and muted -- it doesn't undercut the shadowy, late night setting of nightclubs, which are their milieu. The coloring was rendered with pochoir (stenciling) onto the wash drawings. The artwork is on a thin paper mounted onto heavy brown card. We are lacking the table of contents and limitation page as well as the outer portfolio, but we have 11 plates, as opposed to the ten called for. Obviously the missing elements are a significant shortcoming. Of what we have, the preface is age toned, with a fair amount of foxing on its cover, but we'd say light markings. There is a little foxing on its other pages, but comparatively little. The plates are clean. The cards they are mounted onto have a waviness -- we regard this as a trivial issue. We'd say the plates are Near Fine, perhaps Fine, but given the missing parts, and the Preface's issues, we deem this suite of plates Very Good. Jean Auscher (illustratore).…