GUITRY (Sacha). - Lot 355

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GUITRY (Sacha). - Lot 355
GUITRY (Sacha). From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain. Paris : Raoul Solar, [1951]. - In-4, 278 x 206 : 394 pp, (9 ff.), printed cover. Dark blue half-chagrin with wide bands, gilt stars of various sizes on the boards and spine, spine ribbed, gilt head, cover and spine retained (period binding). Second edition after the 1944 original, the first in bookshops, of this work conceived, composed and commented by Sacha Guitry, containing texts by Pierre Benoît, Maurice Donnay, Georges Duhamel, Abel Hermant, Paul Valéry, René Benjamin, Léo Larguier, Colette, Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, Paul Morand, etc. The edition is illustrated with works reproduced in the text and on full page by Guy ARNOUX, Pierre BONNARD, Lucien BOUCHER, DIGNIMONT, DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, Georges LEPAPE, Aristide MAILLOL, UTRILLO, etc. The lettering, the headbands, the caps and the drawings of the frontispieces are by GALANIS. Edition of 4935 copies plus a few copies out of trade. This is one of the first 63 copies on Johannot's pure rag paper, signed by Sacha Guitry on the false title and enriched with an autograph letter from one of the great historical figures mentioned in the work. This is copy number 26, including a L.A.S. from Octave Mirbeau, addressed to the writer Gabriel Mourey, September 2, 1888, two pages in-12. It is notably about Mourey's work entitled Flammes mortes. Nice copy, enriched with a lithographed portrait of Lamartine by Gandon, printed on japon (p. 236).
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