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COLETTE. Chéri. Edition originale. Avec 6 autres...

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COLETTE. Chéri. Paris, Arthème Fayard & Cie, 1920. 21 x 22 cm, 251-[3] pp. Paperback, publisher's cover. First edition, 1/175 numbered copies on Hollande, copy with all margins. Cover faded and frayed, tears at the foot of the spine and on the back cover, margins of the first and last pages are sunned. With, from the same : - The Black Twin. A year of dramatic criticism. I to IV. Paris, J. Ferenczi, 1934-1938. 19 x 12 cm, 4 vols. bound, in good condition. - La Vagabonde. Lithographs and drawings by Berthommé Saint-André. Paris, Les Editions Nationales, 1945. 22,5 x 17,5 cm, paperback, folder, case. 1/595 copies on Annonay rag paper, illustrations in-text and 16 lithographs out-text. Very good condition. Joint: [WILLY]. Baths of sounds by the usherette of the Cirque d'été. Paris, H. Simonis Empis, 1893. 18,5 x 12,5 cm, bound, blue half-percaline, 1st cover on the back. illustrated in colour by Job. "L'ouvreuse du cirque d'été" is the pseudonym used by Henry-Gauthier-Villars [Willy] to sign his chronicles Lettres sur les concerts Lamoureux, published in the review Art et critique from October 1889. He received "help" for this book, as usual, from Alfred Ernst, and perhaps from Colette, with whom he got married in that year 1893. Ex-dono ms. to the title. Set of 7 vols.