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Hop-Frog: Extrait de Nouvelles Histoires
by Poe, Edgar and Baudelaire, Charles and Velghe, Anne
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
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About This Item
Bruxelles: Le Creuset, 1986. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Text by Edgar Allan Poe translated into French by Charles Baudelaire with original lithographs by Anne Velghe. Jésus quarto solander box (407 x 302mm) velour-covered and stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. The unbound 4pp sections are loosely held in a vellum wrapper. The illustrations by Anne Velghe are printed directly from the lithographic stone. The edition was limited to 360 numbered copies of which nos. 151-350 are "bound" in red velour solander boxes. This is number 215 which, in addition to being signed by the artist has been personalised with the written message: "à Monsieur Olich de Foer et son èpouse, en souvenir de leur amitie pour mon père, Anne Velghe." Wire-stabbed 12pp descriptive leaflet in light card folder laid-in together with a 4pp folded leaflet describing Les Editions Le Creuset.
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 98014
- Title
- Hop-Frog: Extrait de Nouvelles Histoires
- Author
- Poe, Edgar and Baudelaire, Charles and Velghe, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing of this edition
- Publisher
- Le Creuset
- Place of Publication
- Bruxelles
- Date Published
- 1986
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- Fiction;
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