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(BOULLAIRE, JACQUES.) Loti, Pierre. Le Mariage de Loti. Frontispiece and 166 woodcut illustrations and vignettes of Tahiti and its inhabitants by Boullaire, with a separate suite of the plates laid in. 4to, contents loose as issued in original wrappers with color woodcut design on front cover; glassine dust jacket, fine; board chemise and slipcase, slightly toned. Internally fine. Paris: Éditions Littéraires de France, 1944
one of only 25 hors commerce copies reserved for the artist and collaborators from a total edition of 375. Initialed "G.A." beneath the H.C. designation, possibly reserved for Guy Arnoux, under whom Boullaire studied. A lovely collaboration between Loti's romantic text and Boullaire's impressions of the island from his travels there. Created on a hand-press of the master printer John Crès 53 days after the liberation of Paris.
