Baker Joséphine Sauvage Marcel Colin (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Colin, Paul (illustrator). Edition Originale. 30 illustrations (mostly full-page, all black & white except the frontis, and all by Paul Colin), 186, [1]p. Rebound in modern, grained oatmeal-colored cloth. Leather title label mounted on backstrip. Original wrapper not preserved. 19 cm. Mostly modest foxing on some outer leaves. Copy No. 63 of 300 numbered copies "sur pur fil lafuma constituant l'edition originale." French text. Signed and dated by Baker ("Souvenir de Josephine Baker 1941") on a blank leaf -- probably not part of the original book -- which is bound in before the half-title. Inked in upper right corner on back of that leaf in an unknown hand" "Alger le 3 j.? -- looks like "Juil" to us -- Kebel(?) Aletti." Collected and adapted by Marcel Sauvage. Her first autobiography. Online information has Baker, in spy mode, at the Aletti in Algiers in January 1941 before going to Morocco. Baker was taken from her home in Marrakesh in June, 1941, to a hospital in Casablanca where she took about 18 months to recover. All in all, intriguing, and also puzzling.

couverture souple. - Kra, Paris 1927, 20x21cm, broché. - Edition originale, un des 300 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil, seuls grands papiers annoncés. Ouvrage illustré de 30 dessins de Paul Colin. Quelques petites piqûres, dos légèrement insolé comportant deux manques comblés. Exemplaire à toutes marges. Reliure en demi maroquin marron, dos à cinq nerfs, date dorée en queue, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier orange, couvertures et dos conservés, tête dorée sur témoins, reliure signée T. Boichot. Hommage autographe daté 1927 et signé de Joséphine Baker. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage Kra, Paris 1927, 20x21cm, half morocco First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on pur fil, only grand papier (deluxe copies). Handsome copy, uncut. Brown half brown morocco, gilt date at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, orange paper pastedown and endpapers, original wrappers preserved, gilt over untrimmed edges, binding signed T. Boichot. Illustrated with 30 drawings by Paul Colin. Signed and dated inscription by Joséphine Baker.