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SCHWABE, CHARLES Hesperus. By Catulle Mendes. Paris: Societe de Propagation des Livres d’Art, 1904. 4to, contemporary 1/2 green morocco by Devarenne, 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine, original wrappers bound in, top edge gilt. One of 25 “exemplaires nominatifs” printed on Japon paper, this one presented to “Monsieur J. Duval.” With 34 illustrations and decorations by Carlos Schwabe, of which 14 are full-page hand-colored woodcuts, including the front cover. Very minor foxing on the binder’s blank endleaves; one endleaf with a neatly repaired tear; moderate fading to spine; otherwise the interior is clean and bright. A fine copy. $2,500-3,500 115
SCHWABE, CHARLES Les Pastorales de Longus ou Daphnis et Chloe. By Longus (trans. by Jacques Amyot). Paris: L’Edition d’Art H. Piazza, (1926). 4to, in custom silk boards with green leather spine label, silk page marker. One of 111 copies, of which this is number VI printed for Jacques Chabannes, one of 31 on japon imperial. With 24 color pochoir engravings by Charles Schwabe, 12 full-page. Without a suite of plates in black and white (called for by the limitation statement); small chip to foreedge of binding; otherwise fine. $2,000-4,000 116
TING, WALLASSE One-Cent Life. Edited by Sam Francis. (Berne): E.W. Kornfeld, (1964). Portfolio, loose as issued in pictorial cloth folder by Roy Lichtenstein and Pierre Alechinsky, pictorial dust jacket, blue slipcase. Limited edition of 2,000 number copies. The most important book of Pop Art and the CoBrA movements in the 1960s. With 62 original color lithographs, 29 of which are double-page, by Alan Davie (2), Alfred Jansen (3), Sam Francis (6), Walasse Ting (6), James Rosenquist, Pierre Alechinsky (5), Kimber Smith (6), Alfred Leslie (2), Antonio Saura, Kiki O.K., Asger Jorn (2), Robert Indiana (2), Jean-Paul Riopelle (2), Karel Appel (5), Tom Wesselmann (2), Bram van Velde, Joan Mitchell, Allan Kaprow, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Roy Lichtenstein, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Reinhoud, Claes Oldenburg (2), Jim Dine, Mel Ramos (2), Enrico Baj (2), and 19 reproductions. Fading to slipcase with some edgwear; foxing throughout concentrated at the lower corner of pages; chipping to dust jacket with some loss to foot of spine; otherwise fine. $800-1,200 117
VILLON, JACQUES Les Travaux et les Jours. By Hesiode. Paris: (Editions Verve), (1962). Folio, loose as issued in printed wrappers and matching chemise and slipcase. One of 200 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with four color and nineteen black and white etchings by Villon, 15 of which are double-page. 1 inch tear to foot of slipcase; otherwise a very fine livres d’artiste. $1,000-2,000
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