Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

"Journal des Demoiselles" and "Le Gout du Jour, Journal de Coiffures" [From the personal library of Robert Florey*]

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Paris: Journal des Demoiselles et Petit Courrier des Dames Réunies; Auguste Petit, 1880-1888. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated Three-quarter leather over purple cloth boards, with gold lettering on spine. Robert Florey's ex-Libris on inside of front board. A wonderful look at covers of two French fashion magazines: 2 color covers of "Journal des Demoiselles," and 45 b/w covers of "Le Gout du Jour, Journal de Coiffures", starting with September 1880 and going through December 1888. Illustrated with 45 b/w etchings of women and their head wear. Front board detached but present. Chipping to spine. Corners bumped and worn. Discoloration and soiling to boards. Text in French. Binding in poor, interior in very good condition. fair to vg. Item #13066

* Robert Florey (1900-1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and occasional actor. Born in Paris, and at first a film journalist, Florey moved to the United States in September 1921. As a director Florey's most productive decades were the 1930s and 1940s, working on relatively low-budget programmers for Paramount and Warner Brothers. His reputation is balanced between his avant-garde expressionist style, most evident in his early career, and his work as a fast, reliable studio-system director called on to finished troubled projects, such as 1939's "Hotel Imperial." He directed more than 50 movies. His most popular film is likely the first Marx Brothers feature "The Cocoanuts" (1929), and his 1932 foray into Universal-style horror, "Murders in the Rue Morgue" is regarded by horror fans as highly reflective of German expressionism. In 2006, as his 1937 film "Daughter of Shanghai" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, Florey was called "widely acclaimed as the best director working in major studio B-films"

Price: $500.00