Rocca Guy (1 results)
Published by Editions Chantal, Paris 1945
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Unbound. Condition: Fine. First edition. Quarto. Unbound sheets. With 11 brightly hand-colored prints by Rocca, interleaved with text in both English and French. Unbound title page, bifoliam dedication page, with single pages of the text, each one of which is followed by one of the 11 gouache illustrations in a "primitivized" Ar…t Deco style, with a final bifoliam colophon. One of 300 sets (of a total edition of 325) printed on d'Arche paper, this is copy # 167. Slightest age-toning in margins of the prints but exceptionally bright and easily fine. A splendidly colorful variation on the circa 1860 American nursery rhyme *The Ten Little Nigger Boys.* Lovely and rare, albeit racist. *OCLC* locates four sets over three records: two with 10 plates, one (like ours) with 11 plates, and one in the Netherlands that doesn't specify the number of plates.
