[ARTISTIC HARDCOVER BINDINGS. PAPER]. - Lot 233

[ARTISTIC HARDCOVER BINDINGS. PAPER]. LOT of 3 volumes, in-12 or square in-8. Modern Bradel bindings in handmade or dominot paper, with gilt headpieces featuring motifs from the UCAD student community. Good copies. Bindings are unsigned but originate from the UCAD workshops or their circle. -LATOUR. FOCILLON, Henri. L'Ile oubliée. Paris: Printed by Léon Pichon, 1920. In-8, modern cardboard binding, smooth spine with title label in fawn morocco leather. First edition of this evocation of Île Saint-Louis. Illustrated with 9 woodcuts, including one as a frontispiece, by Alfred Latour. Limited, numbered edition. -SEM. ANDRE, L. *La Ronde de Nuit*. Paris: Le Livre de Demain, Arthème Fayard & Cie, (1923). 8vo, marbled Bradel cardboard binding, orange title label, gilt head, cover and spine preserved. -LABOUREUR, BILLY, André. *La Malabée*. Paris, Société Littéraire de France, 1917. In-12, contemporary cardboard binding in mottled paper, cover and spine preserved. Illustrated with 5 black-and-white drawings by Laboureur. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and bookbinding enthusiast, flutist, and lover of literature and classical music, was as much a part of Parisian artistic and literary circles as he was of the world of the decorative arts and their schools, thanks to 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.