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ONE OF ONLY 110 COPIES, WITH THREE REDON ETCHINGS

Odilon Redon: Lettres, first edition

REDON, ODILON.  Lettres D'Odilon Redon

"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined." 

FIRST EDITION,  one of only 110 numbered deluxe copies on Vélin d'Arches à la cuve, with 3 original etchings by Redon. Preface by Marius-Ary Leblond.

Paris et Bruxelles: Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire, 1923. Octavo, original decorative paper wrappers; custom cloth box.  Wrappers in remarkable condition; very clean, just one small closed tear; the most minimal wear to the tail of the spine.  Internally very clean and partially unopened.  A superb and very beautiful copy.  Rare. $3500.

 

Science/Technology/Medicine

Literature/Modern Firsts

Americana/History/Travel

Art/Illustrated/Children's