Description

FIRST EDITION.
ONE OF 10 NUMBERED OFFPRINTS ON HOLLANDE PAPER, only large paper.
Collection of articles previously published in Le Gil Blas, le Gaulois du Dimanche, L'Action, L'Auto, le Soir, l'Art et le Théâtre, la Grande Revue, Arts et Sportsetc...

"Here are news items, studies and reviews. They follow blindly, haphazardly, without anything to link them together, like yellowed leaves detached from the arms of the shore, which go on the water of the river, in Indian files or in isolated groups, of an always equal race, towards the swells and the storms of the open sea. [...] Little book, what will be your fate?"

The book is peppered with an original photograph captioned in graphite: "Dr Clado in his surgery at 122, Champs Elysées, which precedes Spiro Clado's obituary.

A well-established contemporary copy in an elegant binding with a finely mosaic spine,  Albert Cresswell's beautiful full-colour cover preserved in one piece.