Vacances forcées

Réf. 52162

Vendu

DORGELES (Roland) illustrated by Raoul DUFY

Paris - Éditions Vialetay - 1956

Bookbinder : Georges CRETTÉ
Format : In-folio.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Bound.
Collation : 218 pp.

Under lined case and under shirt with back and flaps of blue morocco past night doubled with white basane. Full blue morocco binding. Smooth back, mosaic floral decoration with gold and black threads covering the dishes and back. Brown suede lining and guards. All slices golden. Blankets and backs kept. Binding signed Georges CRETTÉ.

ORIGINAL EDITION printed in 233 numbered copies, signed by the author, the engraver and the publisher, this one of 141 on pure rag vellum of Rives.

THE LATEST BOOK ILLUSTRATED BY RAOUL DUFY. First print of the 24 colour compositions: a frontispiece and 23 vignettes in the text, engraved on wood by Jacques Beltrand after Dufy's watercolours.
A CHRONICLE OF THE WAR YEARS. After having been a war correspondent at the beginning of the Second World War, Dorgelès had withdrawn to Marseille and then settled in the village of Monsaunès in Haute-Garonne, where Dufy
had come to join him
.
With Forced Vacations, he tells the story of this period of his life, from June 1940 to the autumn of 1944, when his friendly companionship with Dufy played an important role: the illustrations in the book were based on the watercolours that Dufy painted alongside him.

BEAUTIFUL COPY IN AN ELEGANT MOSAIC BINDING OF CRETTED GEORGES.