CARCO FRANCIS [Chas Laborde / Pierre Legrain] - Lot 169

CARCO FRANCIS [Chas Laborde / Pierre Legrain] L'ami des filles...ou Chas Laborde commenté par Francis Carco Paris, 1921, Ronald Davis, In-8º (270 × 189 mm), 28pp. and [10] ff. in wine-lees morocco, small circles in gold stippling and pastilles in ultramarine morocco forming a central rectangle and a border enhanced with gold and platinum arched fillets on the long spine, title in gold lettering. Inside, framed in the same morocco with three gilt fillets; pearl-grey moire lining and endpapers, covers preserved, modern folder and slipcase, spine very slightly darkened (PIERRE LEGRAIN) / A "passe" copy, if I may say so. Illustrated with 10 drawings by Chas-Laborde reproduced in black. Issued in an edition of 150 copies, this being the author's copy noted nº00. With FRANCIS CARCO'S MANUSCRITE MENTION: "si j'ose dire "de passe"" Enriched with an autograph dispatch: "Pour Jeanne Diris, Bien amicalement, F. Carco." Jeanne Diris was an actress, starring in Jacques Feyder's film Le destin est maître (1916) and Marcel Simon's comedy Une nuit de noce (1920). The copy also includes a color suite and two unpublished supplementary plates in aquarelle on the front cover. From the collection of Colonel Daniel Sicklès with his bookplate. Superb binding by Pierre Legrain, listed in P. Legrain's bindings directory under no. 117. First edition of the text. Carteret IV-89 / Mahé I-400.