L’ARBALETE. MAGAZINE. - Lot 186

L’ARBALETE. MAGAZINE. Lyon, Marc Barbezat. Issues 8 (Spring 1944), 9 (Fall 1944), and 10 (Spring 1945). Large in-8 format. Paperback, illustrated covers (some wear on the edges of the covers and a slightly tarnished spine). “A literary journal printed every six months on Marc Barbezat’s hand press.” Featuring texts by numerous modern authors. Covers illustrated by Jean Martin. Good copies. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.