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Four issues in unbroken series: highschool yearbooks in the usual format, coated paperstock with vignette photoportraits, local ads, hardbound, these somewhat beat-up and slightly musty, all belonged to one Paul Johansson. Each has a plethora of signatures, boilerplate salutations and juvenile whimsey: on a laid-in dance program nipples are sketched onto a young lady, find a blackface cartoon, and a Walt Baptiste beefcake ad is autographed as "Bill Bugger". Polytechnic student body included Chinese Americans, the two Ow brothers signing one of these items.

Illustrated Wraps. Condition: Very Good. René Vincent, Jacques (Lehmann) Nam, Carlegle, Vald'Es (Valvérane & D'Espagnat), other uncredited (illustrator). First Edition. Paris: La Vie Parisienne, 1917. Illustrations - ephemera from the an unassembled issue of September 22, 1917 of La Vie Parisienne, from its Golden Age, by some of the forty or fifty great illustration artists who gained famed, in large part, for their work in that famed Society magazine. 8 pages remaining here from an unstapled and not fully assembled original copy of the issue. The included art is by René Vincent, Jacques (Lehmann) Nam, Carlegle, Vald'Es (Valvérane & D'Espagnat), and others uncredited . Text in French. Illustrated wraps in the very large folio size (13.75" x 10.5"), 8 glossy pages here of an original 19. As remaining ephemera, these pages are in Very Good condition, and more than suitable for framing or other applications; a touch of crinkle, and very little fade. See scans. The apparent reddish stains on the black and white spreads is color scan-through from the color illustrations on the opposite side of the page. See all scans. The two-page spreads - of a folio size publication - are too large to be completely included on even a large-format scanner, but you will get the idea. The conceits of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, evolving one to the other at the time, as those could be manifested through depiction of the wonders of French women, may never have been more stunning than they were through the remarkable sensibilities of the coterie of artists who regularly contributed to La Vie Parisienne. These pages are from an original - and of course first and only edition - unassembled example of that unique publication. As such, extraordinarily hard to replace, whether in full issues or as surviving, frame-able ephemera, as here. l-eph2.

Illustrated Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Cheri Herouard; Armand Vallee; Fabien Fabiano; George Barbier; Georges Leonnec; other uncredited (illustrator). First Edition. Paris: La Vie Parisienne, 1917. The March 10, 1917 Issue (55e annee, No 10). Illustrations by Cheri Herouard; Armand Vallee; Fabien Fabiano; Georges Barbier; Georges Leonnec; others uncredited. Text in French. Illustrated wraps, folio (13.75" x 10.5"), 19 pp. (215 through 233 for the volume), plus covers. Slender, but large: folio size. See scans. Some cover soiling, wrinkling, wear and very small scale chips; contents sharp, bright, about Very Good overall; nice condition for this thin-but-large, fragile weekly. Glossy covers; first and last few internal pages are on newsprint, else all glossy. Rather spectacular full-page color illustrations (in every issue, in fact) by the coterie of guys who knew how to do what you see here. In the case of this issue, Cheri Herouard; Armand Vallee; Fabien Fabiano; George Barbier and Georges Leonnec are credited for the big stuff, but some of the other very credit-worthy art is uncredited. See scans. Cute humor, from the same mood as mutoscope cards, or perhaps a bit (only a bit) more refined, yields the cover art caption: "Le Casque d'Un Poilu de 1417" (the helmet of a soldier of 1417?) for an artful depiction of a medieval young Lady who has conquered with her wiles; rear cover caption is "Mars venteux et Avril pluvieux Font le May gay et gracieux" below a brave young lass whose skirts are being elevated a bit out in foul weather - always a favorite. Gentle titillation. Even the occasional partial nudity is rather tasteful and soft, though humorously flirtatious. All of the full page efforts are eminently frame-able, and at this time of a sensibility midway-evolved between nouveau and deco, as is much of the uncredited b&w illustration. An original - and of course first and only edition - of the 3/10/1917 issue of this memorable and long-lived French weekly offering of very soft, very artful light erotica. The captioned illustrations by the eminent "dessins" luminaries named above, and others in their clan, are what really "make" this issue (as was generally the case through the era), but cartoons, serial fiction and around-town pieces nicely compliment those. Gorgeous, oversized large color illustrations are what you collect these for. l-LNG1.