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Sept cartonnages décorés par Paul Bonet

1945120 x 180 mm

BEAUTIFUL SET OF NRF PAPERBACKS
BOUND FROM MODELS BY PAUL BONET

500 

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HANDSOME SET OF BOUND NRF BOARDS BASED ON PAUL BONET'S MODELS.
These designs, set against a black and white striped background, are among the most striking in the collection.

"Calligrams
 1945, 204 pp.
One of 960 copies bound after the design by Paul Bonet (Huret, 17).
Binding slightly faded, headband a little marked, interior a little yellowed.

"Alcools Poems 1898-1913
1948, 173 pp.
One of 1,947 numbered copies on Papeteries Téka Plumex paper, bound according to the design by Paul Bonet. (Huret, 15).
Back slightly past.

"The murdered poet
1948, 235 pp.

One of 1,040 numbered copies on Papeteries Navarre esparto paper, bound according to the design by Paul Bonet. (Huret, 21).
Spine slightly faded, spine cap a little marked.

"The seated woman
1949, 155 pp.
One of 990 numbered copies on Alpha Navarre, bound according to the design by Paul Bonet. - despite the attribution to Prassinos - (Huret, 18).
Spine slightly faded, spine cap a little marked.

"Tender as a memory - First edition.
1952, 356 pp.
One of 1,050 numbered copies on Labeur Navarre de Voiron vellum, bound according to the design by Paul Bonet. (Huret, 22).
Back slightly past.

"The melancholy watcher -
First edition,
Frontispiece by Picasso. Unpublished poems. Preface by André Salmon. 
1952, 149 pp.
One of 1,050 numbered copies on Labeur Navarre de Voiron vellum bound from a model by Paul Bonet (Huret, 20).
Back slightly past.

"Anecdotal" - First edition.  Foreword by Marcel Adéma.
1955, 149 pp.  
One of 500 numbered copies on Labeur vellum bound from a model by Paul Bonet (Huret, 16).
Back slightly past.

All copies are protected by Rhodoïd.

 

 

Paris,Gallimard,N.R.F,1945-1955.7In-8, Bound,120 x 180 mm,

Publisher's boards decorated on the boards and spine with colour compositions based on models by Paul Bonet.

Bio

Guillaume Apollinaire

William Albert Vladimir Alexander Apollinaire of Kostrowitzky

(born Polish subject of the Russian Empire, August 26, 1880 in Rome and died in Paris on November 9, 1918).

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Bio

Paul Bonet

(Paris: 15 February 1889 - 2 March 1971)

Artist and technician of the modern book, famous among bibliophiles for his decorations of art bindings but also for his models of industrial bindings.

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