Les Ames du Purgatoire

Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1929.
First Thus.

33cm x 25cm. [ii], 96, [2] pages, 15 pochoir plates. Fine full leather. Text is in French.

The Souls of Purgatory, short story retelling of the myth of Don Juan, the first edition with fifteen watercolours by Hermann Paul. One of a numbered edition of 450 copies on wove paper (of a total edition of 480), this copy bound by French bookbinder Rene Kieffer (1875-1964) in a fine full leather binding with an elaborate star, heart, and chain blind design to both boards, with his ticket to the endpaper, the original wrappers bound in.

Very minor rubbing and bumping to leather. Very minor foxing to edges. Near Fine Condition.

AU$600.00

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