first edition Staplebound
1930 · Paris
by Lagesse et Neymarck etablissemts, editeurs
Paris: Lagesse & Neymarck, 1930. Staplebound. 24p., presswork in black and green spot-color on alkaline coated paperstock, softbound, a stapled booklet or pamphlet in 10.5x6 inch wraps that are decorated with rulings gilt and an onlaid color vignette showing a completed stoa or promenade. Illustrated with forty of fifty b&w photos showing a team of three levelling a surface, pouring tar, installing tiles, plus some diagrams, the customer to know exactly what to expect. Good copy; the overlapping (yapp-edged) covers are a little edgeworn, top margins have sun-bleached lines, there's a little crimping along spinefold. Entirely sound, clean and unmarked, really a very good copy. Text (title passages rendered in attractive deco sanserif) commences: "Vos instants sont precieux vous n'avez pas le temps de lire les nombreux imprimes recus quotidiennement - que ce film vous renseigne clairement. Il vous prouve la simplicite du procede 'Couvraneuf' et la securite que vous pouvez en attendre" &c &c. (Inventory #: 249191)