LIMITED FIRST EDITION THUS, one of only 1500 hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, Marie Laurencin. With twelve quite stunning portraits on tissue-guarded plates from the watercolour paintings of Mlle. Marie Laurencin. 4to, in the publisher's original lily-white cloth lettered on the spine in gilt and with a gilt rose on the upper cover, t.e.g., in the original white paper-covered slipcase with printed label. [xi], 214, [1] pp. A very fine copy, the text and colourplates pristine and as mint, the white cloth unusually fine with none of the yellowing to the spine commonly found on this edition, extremely fresh and bright. The slipcase is strong and sturdy with no wear or splitting at all. AN UNUSUALLY BEAUTIFUL LIMITED EDITION, Marie Laurencin's Parisian avant-garde style lends a striking flair to Dumas' semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. Set in mid-19th century France, the novel tells the tragic love story between fictional characters Marguerite Gautier, a demimondaine, or courtesan, suffering from "consumption" (tuberculosis), and Armand Duval, a young bourgeois. The artist, Marie Laurencin, was an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde. A member of both the circle of Pablo Picasso, and of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or. She was also romantically involved with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, and has often been identified as his muse. Her signature motif is marked by willowy, ethereal female figures, and a palette of soft pastel colours, evoking an enchanted world. - Wikipedia.

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Title: CAMILLE (La Dame Aux Camellas) Translated From the French With an Introduction by Edmund Gosse
Publisher: London The Curwen Press, for Members of the Limited Editions Club 1937
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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