Lot n° 554
Estimation :
1000 - 1500
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 1 125EUR
MAC ORLAN (Pierre). - Lot 554
MAC ORLAN (Pierre).
[Works].
16 volumes in-12, in-16 or in-18, bradel red half cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt motif, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine kept (Ateliers Laurenchet).
Set of 16 titles by Pierre Mac-Orlan bound together. Each volume is numbered from 1 to 16 and
includes:
- La Maison du retour écœurant. Novel. Paris : Bibliothèque humoristique, [1912].
First edition. Copy on publisher's paper (there were only 10 Hollande), enriched with a mailing from the author whose addressee has unfortunately been cut out. Cover illustrated with a colour composition by Gus Bofa.
- Le Rire jaune. Roman d'Aventures. Paris : Albert Méricant, [1914].
First edition illustrated on the cover with a color composition by Gus Bofa and inside with 31 drawings by the author, reproduced in black in the text. No large papers announced. Nice mailing from the author to Doctor Query, accompanied by an original drawing by Pierre Mac Orlan. Cover damaged and lined.
- The dead fishes. Lorraine. Artois. Verdun. The Somme. Illustrations by Gus Bofa. Paris : Librairie Payot, 1917.
original edition, illustrated with more than 80 illustrations by Gus Bofa, including one in colour on the cover and the others in black in the text
.
Copy on publisher's paper (only 10 Hollande copies were made), enriched with a very nice letter from the author addressed to the illustrator and journalist H. P. Gassier.
- Les Bourreurs de Crâne. Illustrations by the author. Paris : La Renaissance du livre, [1917].
First edition illustrated on the cover with a color composition by Gus Bofa and inside with numerous drawings by the author, reproduced in black in the text. Copy on publisher's paper (only 5 Hollande copies were made), enriched with a letter from the author. The name of the addressee has been crossed out.
- The Song of the Crew. Adventure novel. Illustrations by Gus Bofa. Paris: L'édition française illustrée, 1918.
Original edition illustrated with a cover and numerous compositions in the text and on the full page by Gus Bofa
.
Copy on edition paper (only 15 copies were printed on large paper), enriched with a very nice letter from the author addressed to the illustrator and journalist H. P. Gassier. A notice of a letter from Pagnol praising the novel and a press clipping showing the portrait of Mac Orlan and Gus Bofa are enclosed at the head.
From the library of Charles Malexis whose very nice bookplate was drawn by Gus Bofa.
- CARCO (Francis) - MAC ORLAN (Pierre). The Mysteries of the Morgue. Novel. Paris: La Renaissance du livre, 1918.
original edition illustrated on the cover with a composition by Gus Bofa, and drawings by Pierre Mac Orlan reproduced in the text
.
Copy with a leaf mounted at the head including a beautiful mailing from Mac Orlan to the writer Robert de la Vaissière.
- On board the Étoile Matutine. Chronicle of the Gentlemen of Fortune by George Merry followed by La Chronique des temps désespérés. Paris : G. Crès et Cie, 1921.
partly original edition, published one year after the first one, illustrated with 5 compositions by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès, including one on the cover and 4 out of text
.
Copy on edition paper, enriched with a letter from the author to the poetess and novelist Lucie Delarue-Mardrus.
- La Cavalière Elsa. Paris : Nouvelle Revue Française, 1921
. One of 940 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper, this one being one of the 800 reserved for the Friends of the original edition (n° 203). Cover browned.
- La Vénus internationale. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, [1923].
First edition. One of 790 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper, this one being one of the 10 hors commerce (copy g), enriched with a letter from the author to Raymond Gallimard and the latter's beautiful bookplate.
- Le Quai des brumes. Novel. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, [1927].
First edition. One of 1145 numbered copies on vellum paper, Lafuma-Navarre, this one being one of the 1100 destined to the Friends of the original edition (n° 455). Beautiful letter from the author to Jacques Crépineau. Traces of tape on the endpapers.
- Cities. Rouen. Montmartre. Brest. London. Rhine cities. Rome. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, [1929].
Partly original edition. One of 147 copies on vellum pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, the only one on large paper, this one being one of the 17 hors commerce (copy g). Sent by the author to Raymond Gallimard.
- La Tradition de minuit. Novel. Paris : Émile-Paul frères, 1930
. Friendly letter from the author to Chas Laborde. Cover stained and damaged on the back.
- La Bandera. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Française, [1931].
First edition. One of 647 copies on Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper, this one being the first to be published.
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue