Vies Imaginaires
- livre d'artiste, 1946
- 246 pages
- book size 8½" x 6½" (21 x 16 cm.)
- published 1946, Editions Lumiere, Brussels/Paris
- total edition of 1522 copies, this copy mechanically numbered 1501
- first volume in the series Le Reve et la Vie
- softbound with illustrated wraps
- text in French by author Marcel Schwob
- with twenty two black and white full page illustrations by Felix Labisse
- with the fourth b/w full page illustration (p.55) hand painted in watercolors by Felix Labisse
- with an original ink drawing on the title page signed by Felix Labisse and dedicated to Claude-Andre Puget (20th-century French playwright)
- Condition: overall very good condition in glassine wraps, with light toning, pressure marks, edgewear, sprine wear (partial one inch split upper left front spine)
Superb example of this limited edition livre d'artiste, with one of the twenty two black and white
Felix Labisse illustrations hand painted by the artist in watercolors and with an additional
original ink drawing on the title page also signed and dedicated by Labisse.
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