Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(LEPAPE, GEORGES.) Maeterlinck, Maurice. L'oiseau Bleu * Décors et Costumes pour l'Oiseau Bleu. Together, 2 volumes. 61 (with some folding) and 12 plates, respectively, by Lepape, in brightly colored pochoir by Jean Saudé. Large 8vo, publisher's printed pictorial wrappers, spine ends a bit rubbed with some loss; protective glassine dust jackets, moderately worn; internally clean but with some splits between gatherings and a few loose signatures in second work; custom blue cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered calf spine label. Paris: "Le Livre", 1925; Société d'Édition "Le Livre," 1927
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L'Oiseau Bleu is number 27 of 25 copies printed on Whatman, from a total edition of 460. Décors et Costumes is number 12 of 15 copies on grand vélin de Holland van Gelder zonen, from a total edition of 230. Lepape illustrated these works as well as designed the original costumes, maquettes, and sets for Cora Leparcerie's 1923 stage production of Maeterlinck's fanciful tale.