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[BOURBEAU, DAVID]. Root & Sky: Poetry from the Plays of Christopher Fry. Boston, David R. Godine, (1975).

Quarto. 124 pp. From an edition of 220 numbered copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press and signed by Christopher Frey and illustrator Charles Wadsworth, this is copy number two. Illustrated with twelve collograph intaglios by Wadsworth and bound in full brown morocco by David Bourbeau. Picking up on the visual theme of the frontispiece, which shows a tree and its roots against the night sky, Borbeau’s binding features a single rootlike cord in relief against a brown background, with a gold circle suspended above. Paste-paper endleaves in hues of blue tinged with gold and silver evoke the night sky to complement the cover design. A stunning binding for a handsome, modern book. Housed in a leather-backed cloth folding box, which repeats an element of the cover design. Very fine.  (20757)  $2,500.

[FRENCH BINDINGS]. Petit Mois de Saint Joseph. Together with Petit Mois du Sacré-Coeur and Petit Mois de Marie. Limoges, Dalpayrat et Depelley, n.d.

124; 124; 124 pp. With an engraved frontispiece of Christ on the Cross. Text block bordered on two sides by engraed device of floral and animal motif. Two of the volumes beautifully bound in blue morocco with stips of red onlay to both boards, one in brown morocco with blue onlays. Boards and dentelles with intricate gilt-tooled decorations, spines ornamented with gilt floral device in four compartments; a fifth compartment lettered in gilt. Colored endpapers bearing decorative patterns printed in gold. Very fine. A.e.g. Housed in a black hardshell case fitted with a cloth-lined tray consiting of three compartments, one for each book, and a rope border; the underside of the box's cover is cloth lined as well, and padded. Box with a push-button clasp and thin gilt border to top cover. Some faint chipping to edges and corners of box, else a handsome accompaniment to these lovely volumes. (3 3/16 by 2; 81x50mm.). (21059)  $1,250.

[LOBSTEIN, ALAIN ]. Colette. La Treille Muscate. Paris, Marcel Lubineau, (1955).

Octavo. 65 pp. One of 575 copies. Text in French. Colette's vignettes about life at her Saint-Tropez villa "La Treille Muscate," illustrated with line drawings by Marianne Clouzot and beautifully bound by Alain Lobstein. The binding, in soft white calf, has an onlaid strip of beige morocco forming a partial arch over a tooled design of gilt lines and curves that describe sailboats, with onlays of green and blue calf partially filling in the hulls of the boats. Title and author in gilt on spine. Gray suede doublures and decorated endpapers. A.e.g. Very fine. Housed in a half leather and wood-grained chemise and slipcase of full wood grain. Slipcase shows some scratches, leather backing of chemise slightly worn at hinges and spine.  (20744)  $3,750.

[VAN WEST, JULES KAREL ]. Valery, Paul. Analecta ex Mss. The Hague, Alexander Stols, 1926.

Octavo. 63 pp. First edition, comprising 403 copies, of which this is one of 300 subscriber copies. Printed in red and black throughout. Stols' severely simple typography is clearly indebted to that of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press. Bound in full brown morocco in an Art Deco style by Jules Karel Van West, with the original wrappers bound-in. The covers are decorated with four sets of nine gilt lines, which cross and meet each other in four places. In addition, there are four lozenges of onlaid black and gilt, and on the front cover the title, author, and date are gilt tooled. Spine also gilt lettered. The turn-ins are triple gilt ruled and with a light brown morocco onlaid line; the lower front turn-in is gilt stamped J. Van West. Watered silk doublures and marbled endpapers. T.e.g. Very fine in chemise made of the marbled paper used as endleaves, and housed in a slipcase, which has the original design for the binding laid down.  (19308)  $5,500.