COLETTE Le Toutounier. (Paris) Ferenczi (1939)... Lot 704

COLETTE Le Toutounier. (Paris) Ferenczi (1939) In-12 (small hole in white part of title). Garnet Cape morocco, curved boards decorated with Art Deco-style decoration extending over the smooth spine and composed of a semé of gilt dots with three lines of alternating gilt and silver discs at the head and tail underlined by curved gilt fillets arranged in laces, gilt title on spine, edge-to-edge electric blue suede linings and endpapers, garnet tabis double endpapers, gilt tr. on witnesses, cons. covers. In matching hardback flap folder and bordered slipcase. Superb copy. First edition. Edition of 544 copies, 79 uncut, one of 3 on chine hors commerce (no. 3). The unsigned but masterfully executed decoration of the binding is reminiscent of that of the anonymous bookbinder reproduced in: Duncan & de Bartha, La reliure en France Art nouveau - Art déco 1880-1940, no. 230.