JARRY (Alfred). - Lot 168

JARRY (Alfred). Gestes suivis des paralipomènes d'Ubu. Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1920 [1921]. - In-16 square, 148x155: frontispiece, 152 pp, (6 ff. last blank), 6 plates, illustrated cover. Brick-colored Maradi goat leather from Niger, cold title placed horizontally and vertically at the edge of two sides of a slightly recessed square made of a black fillet at the top and a black morocco listel to the right, black morocco listel continuous with that of the square, white curved fillets and two burgundy curved motifs outside this square, second plate with part of this decoration, with the author's name and the year of publication in cold on the left-hand edge of the square, and two white curved fillets and a burgundy curved motif on the outside, smooth spine, untrimmed brown suede lining and endpapers, cover and spine preserved, Maradi goatskin spine folder from Niger, lined slipcase (N. Berjon, 2014). Beautiful edition produced under the direction of André Malraux, illustrated with 7 original etchings by illustrator Géo A. Drains, including a color frontispiece and 6 hors-texts. There are also 3 illustrations in red and black by the same illustrator, one framing the text on all even-numbered pages, another for the odd-numbered pages and a third on a double page for the false titles. Edition of 1,040 numbered copies, this being one of 50 on japon with a suite of hors-texts. Contrary to what is indicated in the justification, the suite is on japon and not on chine. A very fine copy, entirely mounted on mitre, bound by Nathalie Berjon in 2014. A very well preserved copy.