Lot n° 537
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A collection of works published in Paris by GLM - Lot 537
A collection of works published in Paris by GLM
1/ - Lévis-Mano, Guy. - *Mal à l'homme* (1948). In-4 in loose sheets, with printed cover - 24 pp., [2 ff. colophon, blank]. Printed in an edition of 266 copies; this is one of the 7 first-edition copies on blue vellum (No. 4). Beautiful first edition, with a revised version of the first quatrain, dedicated to Jean Petithory in June 1964. J. Petithory (1931–1964) ran the bookstore “Les Mains Libres.”
2/ - Kafka, Franz - Ernst, Max. - *Le Chasseur Gracchus*. A hybrid. Le Pont (1970). Small 8vo, paperback with printed cover - 35 pp., [3 pp., blank page, justification, blank page]. Illustrated with a collage by M. Ernst as a frontispiece and an interior drawing. Printed in a run of 1,307 copies (no. 1071/1292, offset printing).
3/ - Haury, Marthe. - *Le Livre d'Aube* (1945). 8vo paperback with printed cover and flaps - [20 ff.]. Print run of 670 copies (no. 601/520, puffed laid paper). Beautiful layout by G.L.M.
4/ - Courthon, Pierre. - L'Ange des tours penchées (1936). In-8, paperback with printed cover - [38 ff.]. Printed in an edition of 234 copies; one of the 180 numbered on vellum (no. 162).
5/ - Courthon, Pierre - Seligman, Kurt. - *Bal* (1935). Small in-4, paperback with printed cover - [12 ff.]. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Seligmann. Printed in an edition of 125 numbered copies; this one is one of the 100 on tinted helioprint (no. 35).
6/ - Lorca, Federico García. - Poems selected and translated by Guy Lévis Mano, with the Spanish text and drawings by Lorca (1969). In-4, paperback with printed cover - 105 pp., [5 pp., table of contents, colophon, back cover]. Illustrated with 9 drawings by Lorca (4 full-page, 5 inside). Printed in an edition of 1,628 copies; one of 1,600 on tinted Marais laid paper (no. 643).
7/ - Gebser, Jean - Garcia Lorca. - Lorca: Poet and Draftsman (1949). Small in-4, loose-leaf, with illustrated cover - 39 pp., [2 pp.]. Illustrated with 13 full-page drawings by Lorca. Print run of 1,020 copies; this one is one of 775 printed on Alfama paper (no. 633).
8/ - Caroll, Lewis - Hugo, Valentine. - The Hunting of the Snark. (1948). 8vo, paperback with typographic cover - 87 pp., [1 f.]. Illustrated with 9 compositions by Henri Holiday (8 collages and 1 map). Printed in an edition of 1,080 copies; this is one of 1,055 on Marais vellum (no. 150).
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