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Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa s.a., 1994 -- "A veritable wealth of texts" (Carlson): 148 verse fables by the Mexican fabulists José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ("El Pensador Mexicano", 1776-1827) and José Rosas Moreno (1838-1883); and 275 fables by Aesop and Phedrus (in Spanish prose) and by La Fontaine, Ruiz, Iriarte, Samaniego, Arenal, Hartzenbusch, and Campoamor (in Spanish verse); with short biographical notices. (Series: Sepan cuantos, no. 16.). Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy.. In 16s (220 x 137 mm). Pp. [viii], 293, [294-322].

Paris: Librairie Vanier, 1893   ¶ FIRST EDITION, and indeed the only separate edition, of Verlaine's biographical sketch of Francis Poictevin, a minor Symbolist writer. Verlaine's work is enlivened here by Luque's punning caricature of Poictevin as a corkscrew. The artist's most famous work was his caricature of Rimbaud coloring the vowels 1888 (Dillon no. H000335). (Series: Les hommes d'aujourd'hui, no. 424.) ||| Collation: 292 x 202 mm: Two leaves, paginated [1-4] (ie, not paginated).  Illustration: Wood-engraved portrait 201 x 149 mm after Manuel Luque (b. 1854), signed "M Luque" in a stylized pallette in the block lower left, printed in black and HAND-COLORED au pochoir, AS ISSUED.  Binding: (A bifolium loose as issued, never bound.) Condition: Slightly browned as usual, top margins slightly chipped without loss, withal a very good copy of a scarce and fragile pamphlet.  References: Vicaire (1894-1920) vii 1002; Carteret (1924-28)… Read More

New York: Éditions de la Maison Française, Inc, 1943     ¶ FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "Pour Béatrice dans l'Atlantique [signed] VP 8 xi 45 et pour Marcia".   ||| Collation: In 16s (188 x 120 mm): 138 leaves, paginated [1-8] 9-274 [275-276].  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Condition: Very good, spine sunned as usual.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous..

Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1992     ¶ Series: Albums de la Pléiade, no. 31.  Collation: In 8s (170 x 103 mm): 224 leaves, paginated [1-7] 8-443 [444-448]. Pages [1-2] and [446-448] are blank as issued.  Illustration: '601' color or monochrome portraits, views, facsimiles, etc.  Binding: Publisher's brown shagreen, spine gilt extra, peach-pink laid endpapers, brown-and-yellow headbands, yellow-cloth register, all edges trimmed and plain as issued. Publisher's acetate dust-jacket unlettered, pictorial slipcase.  Condition: As new.  Provenance: (1) Serge Gorodetzky (1907-1999), physicist, with his discreet inscription in pencil on the upper free endpaper; (2) Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books +… Read More

Paris: La Nouvelle Édition, 1949     ¶ FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, notable for its striking art-naïf wrappers after Delacroix (1883-1990).   ||| Collation: In 8s (192 x 143 mm untrimmed): 48 leaves, paginated [1-8] 9-94 [95-96].  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine, UNOPENED.  Provenance: Beatrice Reiter Leval (1911-2004), of New York, picture-collector.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous..