GOURMONT, Remy de.

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GOURMONT, Remy de.
Letters to the Amazon. Paris, Georges Crès et Cie, Les Maîtres du livre, 1914. In-18 [190 x 137] of a frontispiece, (2) ff. 360 pp, (2) ff. the last blank : black morocco, horizontal listels in burgundy morocco, with a gilt square at the extremities, 6 on the gutter side and overflowing on the cut and the inner frame, and three on the spine side extending on this one, double ribbed spine, black morocco frame inside, decorated with two gilt fillets, burgundy brocaded silk lining and endpapers, double guards, gilt on the head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (A. Toumaniantz). First edition: it is illustrated with a two-tone frontispiece, woodcut by Pierre-Eugène Vibert, and various ornaments in black. One of the 50 numbered copies on japon impérial (n° 63). A good copy in decorated morocco by Toumaniantz, a Parisian bookbinder who practiced for some twenty years from the 1930s onwards. Cracking at the hinges, cut at the two upper corners.
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