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NOAILLES (Anna de) - LIMOUSE (Roger). Twelve poems. Paris...

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NOAILLES (Anna de) - LIMOUSE (Roger). Twelve poems. Paris : Calmann-Lévy, 1946. - In-4, 330 x 254: (3 ff. first 2 blank), 63 pp. (5 ff. last blank), printed cover. Jansenist yellow morocco, smooth spine, light blue suede lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, yellow morocco spine folder and flap bands, lined slipcase (period binding). Edition published by Henri Jonquières, illustrated with lettering, vignettes and culs-de-lampe by Maurice Frédéric, and 12 full-page color compositions by painter Roger LIMOUSE (1894-1990), transcribed in etching and burin by Raymond Haasen. Edition of 274 copies on Lana vellum, plus a few reserved for contributors (no. 127). A very fine copy.