L'Oiseau Bleu (the Blue Bird) a Lyric Comedy in Four Acts and Eight Scenes by Maurice Maeterlinck

Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1926. Good only hardback copy. The leather binding is cracked at the gutter, but intact and secure. The marbled covers are quite edgeworn. Browned pages. See the photo. 273 pages. . Hard Cover.

Paris, France Editions Fasquelle, 1956. Paperback Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the most minute indications of use: just a hint of rubbing to the wrapper covers. The binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches). xiii, 175 pages. Weight: 7.1 ounces. Paperback: Pictorial Wraps. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 – 1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist, was a Fleming, but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The… Read More

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Paris, France: L'Edition D'Art H Piazza, 1931. limited, numbered. Leather. Good/None. Touchet, Jacques. 1931 Chiffon Vellum cover EX LIBRARY with standard library stamps and blindstamp on title page. Numbered, Limited Edition #572. Shadow of spine sticker (removed). Text in French. Ribbon marker. All water colored illustrations intact. Hinges intact.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation.

A fine edition of Maeterlinck's play L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird), featuring stunning artwork by French illustrator André Marty (1882–1974).
Description: Quarter sheepskin over marbled paper covered boards, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Octavo: 20 × 14 cm; pp. 171, [3]. 27 full-page and in-text illustrations. Top edge gilt.
Condition: Spine ends somewhat nibbled. Pages slightly toned due to their age, one mark in the margin of page 103. No foxing. Else a very good copy.