NICK (Gaston) - DOFF (Néel). Days of famine and distress. Paris : Éditions Mornay, 1927. - In-8, 198 x 148 : (4 ff. first two blanks), 223 pp, (4 ff. last three blanks), 22 plates, illustrated cover. Grey jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt and cold-stamped fillets inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (Semet et Plumelle). New edition, illustrated with one hundred and twenty-two compositions by Gaston NICK, namely twenty-four drypoints (cover, title and twenty-two off-texts), and ninety-eight woodcuts including twenty-three chapter heads, forty-three lettering and thirty-two caps. ONE OF THE FORTY-EIGHT COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPON, this one being one of the eight hors commerce, specially printed for Valère Bachmann, son of the wife of Georges Mornay, founder of the publishing house, who will take over the company in 1935. Beautiful copy bound by Semet et Plumelle, enriched with an original drawing signed by Gaston Nick, executed in pencil and Indian ink opposite the false title . Small rubbing of use to the nerves, damaged case. Provenance : Valère Bachmann.