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Pour La Danse, limited edition,
in beautiful French Art Deco binding
featuring two hand-painted dancers

front board

rear board

[BINDING, ART DECO]. Divoire, Fernand. Pour La Danse. Paris: Editions de la Dansem Saxe, Editeur, (1935). Octavo, full contemporary vellum, each board with hand-painted dancer within onlaid stiff vellum decorative frames. $600.

Limited edition, number 442 of only 1350 copies, of this history of modern dance, profusely illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions. Bound in extraordinary custom French Art Deco binding with hand-painted dancers, the painting on the front cover signed by the artist "G. Bruneau". With original wrappers laid in. A little wear to corners, split at top of spine; painted boards clean and in fine condition.

Science/Technology/Medicine

Literature/Modern Firsts

Americana/History/Travel

Art/Illustrated/Children's