LES GUEULES NOIRES

Book Description

Paris: E. Sansot & Cie, 1907.. 207,[4]pp. Small quarto. Original pictorial stiff wrappers (by Steinlen). With original lithographed frontispiece and fourteen other lithographs hors-texte, and forty text illustrations and vignettes, by Steinlen. Modest rubbing to joints, light foxing to edges, otherwise very good. First edition, ordinary issue (there were 25 copies on Japon, and five on Chine). Preface by Paul Adam. Accompanied by proofs of eleven of the full- page lithographs, on 25.5 x 21.5 cm sheets, with register marks, each signed in pencil in the lower margin by the artist (occasional light isolated foxing at margins, otherwise very nice; hinged and matted). Two of the proofs, for the illustrations facing pages 139 (Crauzat 281) and 171 (Crauzat 279), are for the illustrations as they were redrawn for a portion of the 5th edition. Accompanied by the publisher's original lithographed promotional poster for the book (Crauzat 515), matted and framed (printed and lithographed area 43 x 55 cm) featuring the powerful image used for the wrapper. The poster, which was lithographed by Eugène Verneau, is, to all appearances near fine, but has not been examined outside the frame. CRAUZAT 639, 269ff & 515.

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