Verhaeren,E. u. R.Kieffer. Les Villes Tentaculaires... Lot 1354

Verhaeren,E. u. R.Kieffer. Les Villes Tentaculaires - Les Campagnes Hallucinées. Décoration de Georges Braun. Two titles in one volume. Paris, Collection de "L'Amour des Livres" and Edition René Kieffer 1926. 15 plates each (30 plates in total). 105 p., 2 pp., 2 w.p.; 84 p., 4 pp., 3 w.p. Olive green full leather binding of the period on 5 false bands, gilt-stamped title on spine, gilt edges at head. Marbled endpapers, with the original purple and gold-colored brocades of both titles bound in. Binding designed by René Kieffer with geometric, black cover illustration. Label: "René Kieffer - Reliures d'Art..." on verso of flyleaf. - Numbered copies: 1st title: No. 373, 2nd title: No. 157 of 1050 each - Decorative edition in unusual binding design by René Kieffer, expressing the futuristic and utopian orientation of Verhaeren's poetry.