Lot 1804
J. N. Rimbaud / F. Léger, Les illuminations. Lausanne 1949. + 1 sign. Original.
Estimate
€ 2.000
Starting Price
€ 1.500
Lot:
1804
Category:
Illustrated Books, portfolios and art literature after 1945
FERNAND LÉGER
JEAN NICOLAS RIMBAUD: Les illuminations. Préface de Henry Miller. Lausanne: Grosclaude-Éditions des Gaules (1949). 32,8 x 24,5 cm. With 15 full-page (6 stencil-coloured) original lithographs by F. Léger. 134 pp., 3 leaves, 1 blank leaf. Red, finely-grained morocco leather on 5 bands with gold-stamped spine title and blind-stamped covers. Original wrapper. Marbled endpapers, paper slipcase.
(Original wrapper slightly tanned. The loose lithograph enclosed is slightly damaged, with pencil markings on the front and ballpoint pen markings on the back.)
No. 287 of 275 copies (numbered 101–375; CE 395) on Vélin teinté, signed by Fernand Léger and the publisher in the colophon. - Monod 9742. - Also included: 1) A loose colour lithograph bearing Léger’s signature, inscribed on both the front and back by the publisher Louis Grosclaude. - 2) A typewritten letter from the author Henry Miller to the publisher Grosclaude, bearing Miller’s signature, dated “Big Sur, California, 1 June 1948”.
JEAN NICOLAS RIMBAUD: Les illuminations. Préface de Henry Miller. Lausanne: Grosclaude-Éditions des Gaules (1949). 32,8 x 24,5 cm. With 15 full-page (6 stencil-coloured) original lithographs by F. Léger. 134 pp., 3 leaves, 1 blank leaf. Red, finely-grained morocco leather on 5 bands with gold-stamped spine title and blind-stamped covers. Original wrapper. Marbled endpapers, paper slipcase.
(Original wrapper slightly tanned. The loose lithograph enclosed is slightly damaged, with pencil markings on the front and ballpoint pen markings on the back.)
No. 287 of 275 copies (numbered 101–375; CE 395) on Vélin teinté, signed by Fernand Léger and the publisher in the colophon. - Monod 9742. - Also included: 1) A loose colour lithograph bearing Léger’s signature, inscribed on both the front and back by the publisher Louis Grosclaude. - 2) A typewritten letter from the author Henry Miller to the publisher Grosclaude, bearing Miller’s signature, dated “Big Sur, California, 1 June 1948”.