27 bêtes pas si bêtes / de Germaine de Coster ; présentées par Marcel Aymé.

Accession number: 
PML 198991
Author: 
Coster, Germaine de, author, artist, binder.
Published: 
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [1950]
Credit: 
Purchased as the gift of Jamie Kamph and on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2023.
Description: 
58, [6] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 15 cm
Notes: 

Printed in red and black.
Library's copy no. 14 of 60 on Japon ancien from an edition of 116 copies + 16 hors commerce, with an added suite of woodcuts on Japon mince, the first of which is signed and numbered in pencil 1 of 10, and an additional color woodcut, signed and numbered 9 of 13, in three states.

Binding: 
Designed and bound by Germaine de Coster and Hélène Dumas, 1980, in silver bird skin (ostrich or rhea?), onlaid with an elliptical piece of white calf, partly in relief, and silver coated paper, dark red calf doublures and grey suede guards, spine lette
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Signed in pencil by Coster and Dumas on the justification page.

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