VAN DONGEN (Kees) - HASSAN BADREDDINE-EL-BASSRAOUI. - Lot 639

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VAN DONGEN (Kees) - HASSAN BADREDDINE-EL-BASSRAOUI. - Lot 639
VAN DONGEN (Kees) - HASSAN BADREDDINE-EL-BASSRAOUI. Tale of the 1001 nights. Paris : Éditions de la Sirène, [1918]. - In-4, 322 x 254 : 200 pp, (4 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. In leaves, illustrated cover, gilt cloth covered flap folder. Superb and famous edition illustrated with 117 compositions by Kees VAN DONGEN, including 110 in black (66 full-page, 2 on double-page and 42 in the text) and 7 full-page watercolours reproduced with stencils by J. Saudé. The title illustration is reproduced in colour on the front cover, the same for a vignette on the back cover. Edition at 310 copies; this one is one of 200 on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen vellum (n° 154), enriched with a suite of 4 erotic plates in black, censored, the rare specimen of publication, and the publicity leaflet of Gallimard publishing for the third volume of the Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night published in 1955, with two illustrations by Kees Van Dongen. A very well preserved copy. Jacques Crépineau has pasted a photocopy of an illustration by Van Dongen on the first cover of the folder which does not seem to be the publisher's.
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