FRANCE, Anatole; Sylvain Sauvage [Illustrator].
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.
New York: The Limited Editions Club , 1937.
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another”: The Limited Editions Club Edition of Anatole France; signed by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage and Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Anatole France's first novel. Quarto, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, with water-color illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator Sylvain Sauvage on the colophon page at the rear. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 641. In near fine condition with sunning to the spine. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Introduction by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage.
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.
$800.00
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