Marie Laurencin

Marcel Jouhandeau. Illustrations by Marie Laurencin.

Editions des Quatre Chemins. Paris. 1928. First edition. No. 547 from the 1,000 examples on papier Lafuma. Paperback; grey-blue wrappers, with title label pasted to front wrapper, original glassine wrapper. [c.60 pages.] Colour tipped-in frontispiece, 4 colour reproductions, 32 b&w plates. French. 265 x 215mm. 0.65kg. . Good; light shelf wear, some uneven browning to wrappers and spine, tears to glassine at spine; some slight browning to pages, binding slightly shaken with some light splitting.

A 1928 album of illustrations of the art of Marie Laurencin. 37 of Laurencin's works are generously reproduced in b&w and colour, with a text by the writer Marcel Jouhandeau.