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The Black Sun Press, Paris, 1930. As New. 4to, paperbound. Near fine condition. Includes original slipcase, which has kept this copy in remarkably fresh condition. Original glassine wrapper still almost completely intact, as well. Covers and contents crisp, clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding secure. #193 of the 420 copies of this American Edition, printed on Rives paper, with 6 lithographs by Marie Laurencin.

Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. Softcover. Very Good. Publisher's wraps in glassine, with six color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Copy #196 of 370 of the European edition, and of that, one of 300 printed on Rives paper. Very Good. Foxing to wraps and to pages, often quite heavy. Previous owner bookplate to front free end paper. Six color lithographs present, with tissue guards present but often merely laid in. Snag to glassine at foot of spine.

Paris:: The Black Sun Press,, 1930.. First edition; No. 300 of 370 copies of the European Edition.. publisher's art vellum in glassine, printed in red and black.. Some light foxing to the vellum and some very slight fraying to the tissue at the base of the spine; otherwise a very nice copy.. Oblong folio,. Illustrated with six color lithographs by Marie Laurencin..

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930. Very good.. Limited edition of this highly sought version of ALICE with full-page plates by the French avant-garde artist, one of 350 copies for the US. 9.5'' x 11.5''. Original white wrappers. In original slipcase and chemise. Illustrated by Laurencin with 6 magnificent tissue-guarded color plates with facsimile signatures. Printed on Rives paper. 114 pages. Wrappers moderately foxed, with some light marginal foxing to text. Case scuffed and and repaired; chemise repaired and joints, with part of tan paper overlay worn away on spine. Plates bright.

Paris: The Black Sun Press,, 1930. Stunningly illustrated and preserved First Black Sun Press edition, an extranumerary copy of the deluxe European issue, lettered "F", signed by the artist on the colophon, and with a supplementary suite of the illustrations in sanguine, of which five are signed by Laurencin in purple pencil, as issued. The colophon, which states that 20 numbered copies of this deluxe issue were released in Europe, does not mention lettered copies. This was the first illustrated book of the foremost French artist Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), whose celebrated queer illustrations are "characterized by a palette of pastel colours and feminine subject matter" (Summers, p. 208). Producing Alice in this aesthetic caused "a considerable shock to those brought up on Tenniel" (Tebbel, p. 625). Laurencin hosted other famous artists at her home in Auteuil, where she "reigned like a queen, with her cat, whom she said was the model for all her female faces. As she became popular, her influence… Read More

DODGSON (Charles L) "Lewis Carroll":
LAURENCIN (Marie) [1883–1956]
Alice in Wonderland. [Paris: Black Sun Press, 1930].
Complete set of six colored pastel drawings for this unusual Art Deco vision of ALICE, being the actual finished originals made by MARIE LAURENCIN inside a set of black and white outline designs printed as proofs on wove paper. Her original outlines would have been made directly on lithographic stones for printing whereas this manuscript series was prepared for the printers to create color-separation plates (which explains why the color-printed images in the book do not precisely match the published drawings).
Each picture is signed by the artist in colored pencil, with page size measuring 10-7/8 x 14-1/4 inches.
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Together with: 6 canceled outline proofs from the printer E Desjobert, signed and dated "October 1930", with their printers' stamp. These measure 9-3/4 x 11-7/8 inches on tinted BFK wove paper.
This is one of the artist's most… Read More