COSTER (Germaine de). 27 BEES NOT SO BEES.... - Lot 69 - De Baecque et Associés

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COSTER (Germaine de). 27 BEES NOT SO BEES.... - Lot 69 - De Baecque et Associés
COSTER (Germaine de). 27 BEES NOT SO BEES. Presented by Marcel Aymé (Paris, s.n.) 1950. In-12 square, cherry jansenist morocco, grey morocco lining, red silk hilt, double guard, gold edges, covers and back, bordered case (Semet and Plumel). A very rare first edition of these "short prose poems, each of which presents the confidence of an animal" and "where it is almost always a moral or social portrait (M. Aymé)", it is decorated with 27 fine compositions by GERMAINE DE COSTER engraved on wood grain, 15 of which are in colour. Limited edition of 116 numbered copies, printed on the presses of Daragnès "who supervised the composition until his death", this one 20 on Torinoko, enriched with a black suite on Japan, one of which is signed by the artist. A magnificent, perfectly established copy.
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