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Beasts on Earth and in the Sky - André Demaison - Robert Cami - 1/170 Truffé

Beasts on Earth and in the Sky - André Demaison - Robert Cami - 1/170 Truffé

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This consists of four tales (the first of which is unpublished)

Written by the French "Kipling": André Demaison, who renewed the animal story genre in the 30s
in connection with African civilization.

  • Illustrated by the master engraver Robert Cami (Gold Medal at the 1937 World's Fair)
  • Copy "truffé" (extra-illustrated) with 3 signed and numbered illustrations.
  • And embellished with the autograph signature of the former President of the independence of Côte d'Ivoire.

Nominative work intended for Robert Delmas, a great bibliophile collector,
who was one of the founders of the International Association of Bibliophily and the Société de la Reliure Originale.

Also a former member of the Free French Resistance, with his wife Irène, and a former deportee.



Editions Les Amis Bibliophiles
1961
Preface by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny
With Autograph Signature

Format 26.5*34cm, 118p
numbered 39/170 Nominative Reserved for Members of the Society


Illustrated with 40 Original Engravings
by Robert Cami
under tissue guards

and extra-illustrated with 3 menus from meals organized by the Bibliophile Society for its members
(December 11, 1961 - March 22, 1961 - March 26, 1960)

Each embellished with an original engraving by Robert Cami

Signed and numbered (limited edition of 60 copies)


Loose sheets
in a folded wrap And
In a cardboard folder and slipcase


Condition

Very beautiful work with slight wear consistent with use
  • A small tear reglued on one edge of the slipcase
  • slight rubbing on the edges of the slipcase
  • wear on an interior joint of the folder, reglued
  • some tissue guards slightly wrinkled
  • one tissue guard replaced
  • Interior fresh
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