Rabier, Benjamin — Gedeon Mecano

Paris, France, Librairie Garnier Freres, 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Unpaginated, but 24 leaves (= 48 pages); 139 color illustrations, thumbnails and full pages, quite lovely. Pictorial paper over boards, red cloth-backed, covered now in plastic jacket. Colorful though rubbed cardboard, with worn edges and blunt corners. Lightly toned pages, but illustrations are bright and colorful indeed. This appears to be a reprint of this children's album published in 1927 by the great author-illustrator Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939). His protagonist is the infamous duck protagonist Gedeon the duck who went on a trip in a red torpedo with his friends Placide the dog and Bout-de-Zan the monkey. Story told in 139 color images. Extract from the publisher's catalog on the 4 endpapers. BooksIn-4° cavalier, measuring 23.5 x 30.8 cm).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good