Les Sonnets Pour Helene by Pierre De Ronsard - 1947

Les Phares, 1947. Paperback. Good. 1947. No Edition Remarks. 152 pages. Grey paper cover with black lettering to front. In French. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as occasional foxing, mild tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and sunning causing discolouration.

Paris: Librairie Le Francois. 1947. Vintage Copy. Softcover. Very Good in wrappers. Tear to 3rd FEP. Stain to wrappers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris and Maastricht: La Connaissance and Leiter-Nypels, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Number 308 of 380 copies. Printed to honor the 400 year anniverasary of the birth of the author, Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585). Bound in full tan leather boards with gilt title to spine and blind stamped devices to both boards. Rubbing and chipping to leather along hinges, corners, and edges of boards. The leather along both hinges is starting to crack, but the boards remain firmly attached and the cords remain unbroken. Gilt decoration to dentelles. Marbled endpapers with top edge gilt. Printed on fine paper in Erasmus-Mediaeval type with initial letters and decorations by S.H. de Roos. With a lovely color frontispiece engraving. Gilt flourish to title page. Printed in black, red, and blue inks. The original blue paper wrappers are bound in. Clean and bright aside from penned gift inscription to front free endpaper, offsetting to title page, and browning to top margins of two facing interior pages -… Read More

Paris. La Connaissance / Leiter-Nypels, 1924. 184 p. Leer (marokijn / maroquin). 380 genummerde exx. (service de presse L).l Van Laar 12. Franse poëzie Nypels bibliophile editions