Courteline / Illustré par Bruner

Works of Georges Courteline from the Goncourt Academy - 8 Volumes with black-and-white illustrations in the text and a very large number of color plates hors texte by Edelman, Jacques Touchet, Joseph Hémard, Jean Oberlé, Lucien Boucher, Olivier Kaeppelin, André Foy and Zig Brunner - Nouvelle Librairie de France and Librairie Gründ, 1947-1949 - Limited and numbered edition: One of 1,150 copies on Alfa Navarre: Copy No. 823 - Red half-leather bindings, spine with gold-tooled raised bands, red marbled boards, red headcaps, marbled endpapers and guards, preserved covers, title pages and frontispieces, format: 19.5 x 23.5 cm - Table of contents: see photos - Excellent condition, though extremely rare foxing - 1.) La Vie de Ménage, illus. by Zig Brunner, 293 pages, 1949 - 2.) Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir, Preface by Marcel Schwob, illus. by Joseph Hémard, 209 pages, 1948 - 3.) Les Linottes et Lieds de Montmartre, illus. by Jean Oberlé, 324 pages, 1948 - 4.) Boubouroche, Preface by Lucien Descaves of the Goncourt Academy, illus. by Edelmann, 346 pages, 1947 - 5.) Le Train de 8h47 et Scènes de la Vie de Caserne, Preface by Pierre Mac Orlan, illus. by Olivier Kaeppelin, 311 pages, 1948 - 6.) Les Gaietés de l'Escadron et Autres Contes, a Comedy in 9 tableaux in collaboration with Edouard Norès, illus. by André Foy, 360 pages, 1948 - 7.) Un client sérieux, Preface by Maurice Garcon of the French Academy, illus. by Jacques Touchet, 331 pages, 1947 - 8.) La Philosophie de Georges Courteline / La Conversion d'Alceste / Poèmes - Preface by Edouard Herriot of the French Academy, illus. by Lucien Boucher, 268 pages, 1949 -

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