[ART BOOKS. MODERN ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS]. - Lot 231

[ART BOOKS. MODERN ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS]. SET of 7 titles. -VOLTAIRE. The Princess of Babylon. Munich, 1922. Large quarto. Half-basane leather with maroon corners. -GUIRAMAND. APOLLINAIRE. *Alcools*. Paris, Editions Lidis, 1944. Very small folio, loose-leaf in a slipcase and the publisher’s beige case. -MONTHERLANT. D’aujourd’hui et de toujours. Toison d’or, 1944. -MONTHERLANT. Mariette Lydis “Nouvelles éditions françaises” Printed on gray laid paper. -Charles PEGUY. March 1953, Draeger frères. Paperback, in-4 2 full-page color screen prints and black-and-white illustrations / Pages excerpted from Charles Péguy’s “L’Argent” on work and two eras of working-class life. -Elegia para Magda. Mexico City, 1956. Small folio, paperback with plain pink cover. Black-and-white plates by various artists; signed but not by the author. -MARYAN. Paris, Galerie de France, 1965. With a drawing and dedication on the title page. 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.