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SEM. - Lot 628
SEM. A pekin on the front. Preface by Fernand Vandérem. Paris : Pierre Lafitte, [1917]. - In-8, 210 x 180 : (2 ff.), 247 pp, (2 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Havana half-chagin, smooth spine decorated in the center with a blue, white and red mosaic tricolour cockade, gilt head, untrimmed, linings and endpapers composed of a printed map of Eastern France, filled cover and spine retained (Kama Rok). First edition of these patriotic chronicles on the 14-18 war, illustrated with 150 black and coloured compositions by the author, placed in the text and on full page. Preface by Fernand Vandérem. One of 200 numbered copies on Hollande paper (n° 88). Copy enriched with an original drawing in colours, dedicated and signed by Sem, representing a smiling poilu smoking a pipe. Spine slightly faded, rubbed at the hinges. Cover browned and spotted. Browned endpapers. Attached : - Tourny-Noël. Eleventh year. Bordeaux, December 1905. - Stapled folio. Issue featuring on the cover an illustration by Sem representing President Loubet and Alphonse XIII enjoying the joys of motor sports. Inside is a double page in color by Roubille as well as silhouettes of Pierre Verjes and Yena from Bordeaux. Stained cover. And in a large separate folder : - KAISER (Alfred). Oh!... The Gum. Performed in the 2nd act of La Duchesse des Folies-Bergère. Paris : E. Fromont, 1902. - Fascicle in-folio, 7 pp. with illustrated cover. In sheets. Piano score of this waltz by Alfred Kaiser, illustrated on the cover with a colour composition by Sem. Stain on the bottom cover, small tears on the edges. - Paris illustré. Paris, September 1904. - In-folio, paperback. Number 24 of September 1904 of Paris illustré, decorated with caricatures of Sem in black and white. The cover includes a portrait of the artist in colors by Boldini. Unclipped. - La Charette "charrie". Today's Ceux de Deauville. Drawings by Sem. Text by Michel Georges-Michel and Michel Herbert. Paris, 1922. - In-folio, in sheets. Number 4 of Tuesday August 1st 1922 of La Charette "charrie", entirely illustrated by Sem. One of 50 copies on Lafuma paper, this one not numbered. - Folder titled L'Art du Théâtre, including : . 9 original sketches by Sem, unsigned, of which 8 represent the portrait of the same actor, pasted together on strong wove paper, and one featuring a man from the back in pencil and black felt pen, pasted on blue wove paper, . six covers of Le Cri de Paris, illustrated with a color composition by Sem, . a booklet from L'Art du Théâtre including a 5-page article by Gaston Deschamps entitled La Châtelaine, published in November 1902 and illustrated by Sem (tears repaired with scotch tape) . - Bars and cabarets of Paris. Text and watercolours by Sem. Paris : L'illustration, December 7, 1929. - In-folio, paperback. Extract from the newspaper L'Illustration of December 7, 1922, proposing the advertising leaflets and the article by Sem illustrated by him. The cover is modern, specially made by Jacques Crépineau. - Three original drawings by Sem, matted, one representing a self-portrait of the artist at his work desk, signed and executed in Indian ink, a second unsigned one depicting a lady, done in pencil and ink, and a third one painted in black and signed twice, representing a car driver. - Various reproductions of drawings of Sem and portraits of the artist, taken from brochures and magazines.
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