Mini Book, Signed (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Peach colored illustrated stiff paper covers with black plastic spiral spine. Crisp copy. The spiral spine is not compromised. Signed by the author on the title page. Comes with a booklet by the same author entitled, "Mini Beer Update: A Supplement to Miniature Beer Bottles & Go-Withs". 163 pages. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited and Numbered First Edition. # 49 of 200 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR and Publisher Frank J. Anderson with his "compliment of ." card laid in. Includes 10 posters on different colors and types of paper, in folding yellow case. All are Fine. Bradbury 13, pp. 117. Size: 3" x 2 1/4". SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.

1st edition pictorial boards As New 16 mo. 142pp., colour plates, Presentation copy 'to. with much pleasure, One day in the studio, Bruno'.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. in LATIN/ENGLISH. signed by author on endpaper. signed and minimus doodle by illustrator on endpaper. Size: 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Condition: VERY GOOD. 1979 SC. Clean (uncolored) a hint of shelfwear on wraps. Cuople small stains inside front cover. Signed by author.

A significant Jules Breton (1827-1906) small collection by this master 19th-century French painter and poet, considered one of the primary transmitters of rural beauty and idyllic vision in France. He was the favorite painter of Eleanor Roosevelt. Featured here: 1) Breton, Jules. "Un Peintre Paysan,'Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896. First edition, containing a magnificent sketch by Breton (signed, and dated 1895), an early rendering by the artist of his painting in which the woman still has clogs on, while the eventual oil the farm woman has bare feet. Book also signed an inscribed on the half-title: "A Monsier Lacroix, homage," etc., as well as an ALS loosely inserted, March, 1890 to "Cher Monsieur Clarend, regarding receiving his book" on his way to Paries, etc. 2) A five-page manuscript essay by Breton written in fountain pen on octavo sheets touching on the painter's passion for painting. 3) A three-page manuscript poem "Les Premierer Communicants a Madame Alph. Daudet,'a subject which she painted many times to poet Julia Det, in which the title is crossed out, just like the title of the poem. Julia was married to controversial poet Alphonse de Madame Alphonse Det. 4) Last in this collection is a superb, large etching on parchment from Breton's famous painting, "In the Fields, Evening,'1885, (28 x 24 inches (etching size), 33.5 x 12 (parchment size). The etching is entitled, "The Gleaner (La Glaneuse), and, per an announcement:, "Among the art masterpieces of Paris, few pictures are better known or more admired than Jules Breton's "Gleaner," in the Luxembourg Gallery. The magnificent peasant woman represented is not an ordinary studio model disguised in homely attire, but is a portrait drawn in the harvest field at Courrieres, in 1877. Of the etching by Luicen Dautrey, Jules Breton writes: "Because I am completely satisfied with your plate of my 'Glaneuse,' will with pleasure sign a selection of the best proofs." signed by Jules Breton in light pen on lower left, below etching, and beside that what looks to be an original sketch of Breton, and to the far right, a presentation from L. Dautrey, "to my great cousin.".