New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1977)., (1977).. Very good. - Quarto [13-1/4 inches high by 10-1/8 inches wide], white buckram titled in gilt on the spine. The book is housed in a blue paper covered slipcase with a printed paper label on the spine & a black-and-white pictorial label on the front panel. The spine & extremities of the slipcase are faded. There are some white marks to the rear panel & a light stain to the label. Title, half-title & [iii] pages plus unpaginated facsimile. The poems & Raoul Dufy's black-and-white woodcut illustrations are printed on one side of the leaves only, with the translations on the versos. Fine in a very good slipcase. <p>Printed by the Stinehour Press.<p> Illustrated with woodcuts by Raoul Dufy. (Facsimile). Translations by Lauren Shakely.

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Bookseller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 35982
Title: LE BESTIAIRE / Ou Cortege d'Orphee.
Author: (Dufy, Raoul). Apollinaire, Guillaume
Book Condition: Used - Very good
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1977).
Date Published: (1977).
Keywords: ILLUSTRATED; ART; POETRY; POET; FRENCH; GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE; ARTIST; PAINTER; RAOUL DUFY; WOODCUTS; BESTIARY; LE BESTIAIRE; CORTEGE D'ORPHEE; STINEHOUR PRESS.
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.

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Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Facsimile: An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...