LITERATURE, ARTS, POETRY: 19th–20th Centuries. - Lot 193

LITERATURE, ARTS, POETRY: 19th–20th Centuries. LOT of 9 assorted works. 19th–early 20th centuries. Literature, caricatures, illustrated books.... -DAUMIER. PHILIPPON. Les Cent et un Robert Macaire. Paris: Aubert et Cie, 1839. 2 parts in 1 large in-4 volume. Spine missing, some foxing. Title pages and frontispieces for each volume. -LAMARTINE. *Graziella*. Bossard, 1926; cover featuring portrait, frontispiece engraved by Gandon; square 12mo, aubergine half-maroquin with corners, spine damaged on pure Lafuma No. 354. -DINET, Etienne. *Les Fléaux de la peinture*. PARIS, REY, paperback, spine slightly detached, 68 pp. Sent by the author with the half-title page inscribed “To my friend Francastel.” Pierre Francastel (1900–1970), a distinguished French art historian and sociologist, a major theorist who wrote numerous works on the image, plastic space, and the sociology of art -*Characters* by La Bruyère, followed by *Characters* by Theophrastus Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, printers to the Institute, Paris, 1845, in-1é, contemporary blue half-calf, smooth spine with slightly faded decoration, frontispiece engraved by Hopwood. A few foxing spots on the first few leaves. -BARRES, Maurice. *L'Ennemi des lois* (The Enemy of the Laws), Gallia collection, 12mo, contemporary half-basane, fresh interior Paris: Georges Crès et Cie; London: Dent & Sons; lithographed frontispiece portrait by Crevaux. -RICTUS. STEINLEN. *Soliloques du pauvre*. Rey, 1925. square 8vo, paperback with illustrated flap cover, but spine damaged and upper joint split; interior fresh but with small paper losses. -SAMAIN. Selected Works. Preface by Francis Jammes. Reproduced frontispiece portrait by Carrière, with wide margins, published by Mercure de France on laid paper; limited edition of 1,045 copies—this one, no. 679, on laid paper. Paperback with the publisher’s “vous grise” imprint and flaps. -DUFOURT, Jean. *Laurette, or the Loves of Lyon*. 8vo paperback, numbered by Rives; illustrations and etchings; frontispiece printed in black on a tinted background. Interior fresh but spine missing. -POE. *The Raven*. Paris, Pichon, 1930. Paperback, in-4 lo,g, cover no. 198 on white vellum, custom-shaped. Limited edition this copy no. 6