Lot n° 113
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COLETTE. Claudine at school. 1900. Claudine in Paris. 1901. - Lot 113
COLETTE. Claudine at school. 1900. Claudine in Paris. 1901. Claudine at home. 1902. Claudine s'en va. 1903. Paris, Paul Ollendorff (Mercure de France for Claudine en ménage), 1900-1903; set of 4 volumes in-12, bindings of the 1920s half morocco with green or orange stripes charged with fragments of white listels in offset, smooth spines decorated with art deco compositions mosaicked in orange, beige, olive overflowing on the boards, names and titles in large continuous palladium letters and repeated in cold letters, palladium headers, covers, slipcase (Paul Bonet)
First editions. Autograph dedications by Willy to the first two volumes: "To the composer Pierre Lasserre who knows everything that cannot be learned. From someone who has faith in him Henry G[authier]-V[illars]. "To Édouard Drumont, sculptor in bronze, this snow statuette, offered by his admirer Willy.
Pierre Lasserre (1867-1930) was a musicologist, writer and composer; Édouard Drumont (1844-1917), a polemical journalist and founder of La Libre Parole, was best known for his anti-Semitism.
Inserted in the first volume is an autograph letter from Colette signed "Colette Willy" on the letterhead of the Métropole Hotel in Brussels: "No. Claudine à l'école is not an autobiography any more than Cl. à Paris, nor Claudine en ménage, nor Claudine s'en va, nor La Retraite sentimentale. That I have introduced in all these novels pieces of my life is true. As far as my collaboration to all these works is concerned, it is enormous" (undated, 2 pages in-8, split at one fold).
From the library J. van Hernandez with ex-libris.
THE SIGNED BINDINGS OF PAUL BONET, FROM THE BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER, ALREADY VERY ELABORATE IN THE NEW STYLE OF THE POST-WAR PERIOD ARE WELL PRESERVED.
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