SÉNÉCHAL (Adrien). Alphabet of the memory. Artistic bookshop of childhood. 1918. Small in-12 (13,4 x 16,2 cm). (12) pp. : soft cardboard covers illustrated in colors, the brightness of the fire of Notre-Dame de Reims, with the title in a triple frame in black, on the first one, a rooster crowing, in the middle of ruins, on the second one. Alphabet of the First World War illustrated with emblematic places and monuments destroyed by the battle, work of the painter Adrien Sénéchal (1895-1974). A, Arras, C, Coucy, L, Louvain, a double plate for Metz, Paris illustrated by the interior of Saint-Gervais bombed, etc. Each lithographed and stenciled plate bears the initials and the name of the city at mid-page and the color illustration in a frame. Images underlined with the artist's name dated, 1918, in a pennant, at the foot. Fragile testimony. Crack on spine, small angular loss on first leaf and first cover which also has an applied label at head. Provenance: Bertha Holbrook, with her handwritten bookplate.