Woman and Puppet : A Spanish Romance by Louys, Pierre / Clara ice illustration - 1927

1932. Hard. POOR. BB102 1932 HC. Boards have wear, soiling & fading. FEFF is clipped. Threads exposed on back hinge. Clean text tho there are some smudges. Nicely illustrated.

NY. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine has some sun fading, edges of boards . slightly worn, spine still strong and pages clean. ; Hardcover; Rarity . Press, Inc. ; 1932. Beautiful colored plates as well as B&W sketch plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 p. .

New York: Privately Printed for the Pierre Louÿs Society, [1927]. First Thus. Limited to 1250 copies of which this is no. 1015. Octavo (26cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket printed in red; 270pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates with tissue guards, full-page illustrated chapter breaks printed in yellow. Boards slightly scuffed, a few short closed tears and minor wrinkling to jacket extremities, else a Very Good or better copy adorned with brilliantly-colored plates by the bohemian avant-garde artist Clara Tice, mostly depicting the "Woman" of the title in various forms of dishabille.

N.p.:: Privately printed for The Pierre Louys Society,, [1927].. First edition. No. 1180 of 1250 copies.. publisher's half olive morocco over marbled boards; gilt spine; gilt nude by Clara Tice on front board; t.e.g. . Spine uniformly faded to brown; tiny areas of rubbing at corners; tight and sound; contents fine.. 8vo,. Illustrations by Clara Tice.

New York: Privately printed for the Pierre Louÿs Society, 1927. One of only 10 with original drawing by Clara Tice. Hardcover. Clara Tive. Privately printed for the Pierre Louÿs Society, 1927. [New York?:] Privately printed for the Pierre Louÿs Society, 1927, 270 pages. No 6 of only 10 special copies with a signed original drawing on the half-title page. First edition, first printing, one of 1,250 copies only,  Illustrated with 10 color illustrations. a color frontispice with silver background, an illustrated title page and 14 full page chapter headings each with a different golden woman's silhouette . Bound in brown half leather with gilded spine with 5 raised bands. Decorated endpapers.  Pages slightly browned , but clean and undamaged. Binding tight and solid, boards have some light shelf wear, La Femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet) was written in 1898 by Pierre Louÿs.