Sur le Mur de la Ville ("On the City Wall")

  • 3/4 leather
  • Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1938
By Rudyard Kipling
Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1938. 3/4 leather. Near Fine. Georges Leroux. #90 of 100 copies (within the larger limitation of 1,210 copies) of this handsome 1938 French edition of Kipling's "On the City Wall"). Bound in 3/4 pebbled green morocco over marbled boards. 3 raised bands, bright gilt-tilting and lovely Art Deco gilt-tooling along the spine. Matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns, the original wrappers bound-in. As part of the limitation of 100 copies, includes the 12 extra plates-in-color by Georges Leroux and "une suite speciale des gravures en bistro". Clean, very attractive and Near Fine, translated from its original Englsh by Louis Fabulet.

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