DUCROS ET COLAS and ATELIER DE EDMOND DESJOBERT

Banville, Theodore de. La Mer de Nice. Lettres a un Ami.

Paris: Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile Club de France, 1933.

4to. Illustrated in colour with lithographs by Georges Gobo (the frontispiece listed but not printed in this copy or in many copies?). No. 50 of an edition of 130 copies. Text printed by Ducros et Colas; lithographs printed on a handpress by Lucien Detruit & Emile Delpuech at the Atelier de Edmond Desjobert. Loose leaves in wrappers, folder and slipcase as published. Carteret, Vol. IV, p. 56: 'Belle publication ayant obtenu le grand prix de la Societe nationale des Beaux Arts en 1933. Elle est cotee.' Monod, # 933. Included in Carteret’s list of the 36 major modern editions illustrated with lithographs, vol. 1, pp. 297-299. Provenance: This copy printed for Maurice Keller. Purchased 1986.