Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #39602 La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]. George Barbier, Albert Flament René Boylesve, René Bizet, Gérard d'Houville, George Barbier, Illustrated by, Text by.
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]
La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]

La Guirlande des Mois - 5ème Année 1921 [WITH POCHOIR PLATES]

Paris: Meynial, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [4], 137, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over decorative silk cloth. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Hand-colored illustration on title page. Illustrated headpieces, and decorative tailpieces. Book housed in its original illustrated cardboard slipcase. Published by Jules Meynial between 1916 and 1921, "La Guirlande des Mois" was a delightful five-issue series of almanacs, embellished with striking in-text drawings and pochoir plates by George Barbier. Filled with calendars, poems, articles and fiction by noted cultural figures of the period, they evoke a privileged world of elegant splendor. Illustrated with five in-text drawings and six splendid pochoir plates by George Barbier, this fifth and last issue of "La Guirlande des Mois" contains a poem by René Boylesve (Vers l'Absente), and four short stories (La Sphère Enchanté; La Guêpe; Madame Fleur; L'"Imbroïlle" de l'Opéra) by, respectively, Albert Flament, Gérard d'Houville, René Bizet, and George Barbier. This volume is complete with its 12-page 1921 calendar at rear, as well as its eight Note pages (left blank). Age-toning to slipcase. Dust-jacket sunned along spine, with minor offsetting to covers. Binding slightly frayed at head and tail of spine. Text in French. Slipcase and dust-jacket in overall good, binding in good+, interior in very good, pochoir plates in near fine to fine condition. Protected in modern mylar. g to vg. Item #39602

Price: $650.00