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Quarto. Original cream wrappers, titles to front black, edges untrimmed, mostly uncut. With glassine jacket. Front wrapper partially detached but holding, a few marks to wrappers, internally fresh. A very good copy indeed, in an excellent example of the glassine, spine ends a touch chipped and creased, closed tear to fold of head of front panel, else clean and bright. ¶ Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française , 1982. £4,500 [152210] 115 LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 First trade edition, which O’Brien designates the “Third English Edition”, after the unprocurable Oxford Times edition of 1922 (only eight copies printed), and the sumptuous 1926 Cranwell edition, which was limited to 211 copies, with 170 designated complete. Quarto (250 × 190 mm). Finely bound by Rivière & Son in red half morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, matching cloth boards, marbled endpaper, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Lawrence (from the plaster bust by Eric Kennington), 53 plates, and 4 folding maps. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy. ¶ O’Brien A042. £1,250 [153181]
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First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page to Colette: “A madame Colette Hommage de la fidèle admirative George Day”, with an original colour sketch by Laurencin, signed and dated April 1948. This is an excellent triple association: presented with sincere admiration by a stalwart of Parisian poetry to one of the queens of French culture, with a sketch by one of the foremost artists of the day. The trio probably met through the salon of lesbian Natalie Clifford Barney; Colette was a “demi-liaison” of the American expatriate, Laurencin a very close friend, and George-Day (the nom de plume of poet Yvonne Debeauvais, general secretary of the Société des gens de lettres, sometime president of the Maison de Poésie, and vice-president of the Ronsard Academy) a correspondent of Barney.
condition, spine of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest cocked, others square, contents of all clean and bright, in the very good dust jackets, not price-clipped, minor creasing to edges, most notably to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest , a couple of surface scuffs, mainly to The Girl Who Played with Fire . £750 [153540] 114 LAURENCIN, Marie – GEORGE-DAY, pseud. of Yvonne Debeauvais. Marie Laurencin. Trente-deux reproductions en héliograuve. Paris: Éditions du Dauphin, 1947 PRESENTED TO COLETTE, WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH BY LAURENCIN
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