Fumetti e illustrazione

Capitolo del prete da Povigliano. A messer Ieronimo Fracastoro. (illustrated with hand-colored etchings by Renzo Sommaruga)

Francesco Berni (Renzo Sommaruga, illustrator) · 1951 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$975.00 (€882.46 | £737.10 | ¥155,871)

Verona, Giovanni Mardersteig / Officina Bodoni, A wonderful and rare Officina Bodoni publication, illustrated with SEVEN ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY RENZO SOMMARUGA, ALL HAND-COLORED BY THE ARTIST. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies, all beautifully printed (by Giovanni Marderst...

Croquis de Temps de Guerre (portfolio of signed lithographs by Steinlen)

Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre · 1916 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$4,950.00 (€4,480.17 | £3,742.20 | ¥791,347)

Paris, La Guerre / d'Alignan, WITH 18 LITHOGRAPHS ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER, ALL SIGNED BY STEINLEN. No. 1 (all published). A portfolio of 18 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS by Steinlen (complete), 14 printed in black and 4 printed in blue. ONE OF ONLY 100 SETS PRINTED ON IMPERIAL JA...

La Semaine Sainte. Seville 1952. Aquarelles de Paul Collomb.

Paul Collomb (Francis Carco, Carlos Colon, Jose Maria de Mena, and Jérôme et Jean Tharaud) · 2002 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Villerville, Nanga, Two volumes, complete. A livre d'artiste with 52 full-page loose high-quality color reproductions of watercolors executed by Paul Collomb (1921-2010) in 1952. From a total edition of 100 numbered copies printed on extremely fine wove paper and signed by t...

Le cimetiere marin. Orne de sept eaux-fortes originales de l'auteur (Paul Valéry)

Valéry, Paul · 1926 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$9,750.00 (€8,824.58 | £7,371.00 | ¥1,558,713)

Paris, Chez Ronald Davis, SURELY THE BEST COPY OF ONE OF THE GREAT LITERARY-ARTISTIC DOCUMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. This edition of "Le Cimetiere Marin", one of the best-known and best-loved of all modern poems (and Valery's most emblematic work), is ILLUSTRATED WITH 7 ORIGIN...

Modes et manières d'aujourd'hui. Neuvième année (1920). Douze aquarelles de Robert Bonfils. Agrémentées de prose de Gérard d'Houville.

Gérard d'Houville and Robert Bonfils · 1920 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Paris , Pierre Corrard (pochoir coloring by Jean Saudé), First and only edition of this gorgeous portfolio of brightly-colored art-déco pochoir plates by Robert Bonfils. With 12 pochoir plates by Bonfils and 12 prose poems with titles matching the plates by Gérard d'Houville ...

La Treille Muscate. Illustré de quatorze lithographies originales en couleurs de Terechkovitch

Colette (André Dunoyer de Segonzac, introduction; Terechkovitch, illustrator) (Maurice Goudeket and Alexis de Redé association copy) · 1961 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$1,250.00 (€1,131.36 | £945.00 | ¥199,835)

Paris, Robert Léger, An impressive association copy of a gorgeous livre de peintre, illustrated with 14 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY TERECHKOVITCH. Edition limited to 150 copies. THIS IS A SPECIAL COPY RESERVED FOR THE ARTIST, WITH A SIGNED PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM MAU...

Hérodias. Illustré de onze eaux-fortes originales dessinées et gravées par William Walcot

Gustave Flaubert (William Walcot, illustrator) · 1928 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$1,950.00 (€1,764.92 | £1,474.20 | ¥311,743)

Paris, Devambez, AN OUTSTANDING COPY OF THIS WONDERFUL LIVRE DE PEINTRE, with 15 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS (with drypoint and aquatint) BY SCOTTISH ARTIST AND ARCHITECT WILLIAM WALCOT (1874-1943), ALL IN THREE STATES, AND A HAUNTING ORIGINAL DRAWING (watercolor over graphite, depictin...

L'apprentie. Préface de Henry Céard. Eaux-fortes et pointes sèches dessinées et gravées par Auguste Brouet

Geffroy, Gustave (Auguste Brouet, illustrator) (Henry Céard, introduction) · 1924 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Paris, Frédéric Grégoire, A charming livre d'artiste, with 38 FINE ETCHINGS AND DRYPOINTS BY AUGUSTE BROUET (portrait of the author; title-page vignette; 12 full-page hors-texte plates; 12 headpieces; 12 tailpieces). From a total edition of 162 copies, this is one of 110 numb...

Ephéméride. Gravures de Baltazar

Albert Baguette (Baltazar, illustrator) · 1979 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$375.00 (€339.41 | £283.50 | ¥59,951)

Liège, (privately published), A gem of a livre de peintre, with 7 ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE COLOR ETCHINGS BY BALTAZAR, EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST WITH HIS INITIALS. Edition limited to 67 numbered copies printed on fine Arches wove paper and SIGNED by the author and the ar...

Morgate : Légende dramatique, quatre tableaux en vers et en prose. Illustré par Félicien Rops et Louis Legrand.

Rodolphe Darzens (Félicien Rops and Louis Legrand, illustrators) · 1924 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$275.00 (€248.90 | £207.90 | ¥43,964)

Paris, Editions Pellet, A quirky illustrated book about the mythical Breton town of Ys and its destruction, illustrated throughout with drawings, and with TWO MORBIDLY EROTIC ORIGINAL HORS-TEXTE DRYPOINTS BY LOUIS LEGRAND AND TWO EROTIC ORIGINAL HORS-TEXTE LITHOGRAPHS BY FELIC...

Toutoulouze et Ouriki (with an original drawing by Georges Lemoine)

Ulrike Blatter (Georges Lemoine, illustrator) (Pierre Lecuire association copy) · 1991 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$275.00 (€248.90 | £207.90 | ¥43,964)

Lutry, Editions d'Orzens, A beautiful book about female sensuality intended, one would suppose, for adolescent girls. Illustrated throughout with ethereal, oneiric color drawings by Georges Lemoine. WITH AN ORIGINAL MOUNTED DRAWING BY LEMOINE, SIGNED AND DEDICATED TO PIERRE ...

Accords. (with original aquatints by Christian d'Espic)

Anne-François Mare (Christian d'Espic, illustrator) · 1952 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Paris, Pierre Berès, A gorgeous and very rare livre d'artiste, with 28 ORIGINAL AQUATINTS BY CHRISTIAN D'ESPIC (1901-78), a surgeon who had learned etching from his close friend Jacques Villon (D'Espic's wife, Colette de Ginestet, would go on to compile the standard catalogues...

Parti de Liverpool. Lithographies originales de René Genis.

Edouard Peisson (René Genis, illustrator) · 1961 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$350.00 (€316.78 | £264.60 | ¥55,954)

Paris, Les Médecins Bibliophiles, A charming livre de peintre, with 35 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY RENE GENIS. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, all printed on fine BFK Rives wove paper. This copy printed for Dr. Marcel Rouzaud. Large 4to. Loose as issued in origin...

Les Bijoux indiscrets. Burins en couleurs de Jean Dulac.

Denis Diderot (Jean Dulac, illustrator) · 1947 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Paris, Editions du Val de Loire, Two volumes, complete. A wonderful example of art déco erotica, like many books illustrated by Dulac, with 38 explicit original color etchings. Edition limited to 298 numbered copies beautifully printed on Rives laid paper. THIS IS A SPECIAL...

Le Sport. Eaux fortes, dessins et croquis par André Dunoyer de Segonzac. (WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF BILL TILDEN)

Jean Giraudoux (André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Jacques Beltrand, illustrators) (Bill Tilden) · 1962 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$2,950.00 (€2,670.00 | £2,230.20 | ¥471,611)

Paris, Editions d'Auteuil, A superlative, pristine, and complete copy on Imperial Japanese paper with fifteen original etchings and AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF BILL TILDEN BY ANDRE DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. From a total edition of 225 numbered copies, this is ONE OF ONLY 27 COPIES (têt...

Huit illustrations de guerre. Dessinées & gravées sur cuivre par André Dunoyer de Segonzac

André Dunoyer de Segonzac · 1926 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$1,950.00 (€1,764.92 | £1,474.20 | ¥311,743)

Paris, Henri M. Petiet, AN ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS AND HAUNTING PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT SIGNED DRYPOINTS BY ANDRE DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, depicting scenes from World War I. These are not battle scenes, but rather depict the everyday lives of the French combattants: in the trenches, on p...

La Jaquerie: scènes féodales. 41 compositions de Luc-Olivier Merson, gravées à l'eau-forte par Chessa. (Jacquerie)

Prosper Mérimée (Luc-Olivier Merson, illustrator) · 1909 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€448.02 | £374.22 | ¥79,135)

Paris, A. Blaizot, WITH A SIGNED AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM MERIMEE. A livre d'artiste with 41 ETCHINGS BY CHESSA AFTER LUC-OLIVIER MERSON. 3, 287 pp. From a total edition of 289 copies, this is ONE OF ONLY 30 COPIES PRINTED ON FINE CHINESE PAPER. Laid in is a signed autograph ...

Les Civilisés. Eaux-fortes originales de Henri Le Riche.

Claude Farrère (Henri Le Riche, etchings) · 1926 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Paris, Librairie de La Collection des Dix, Veuve Romagnol, An outstanding copy of an outstanding livre d'artiste devoted to the glamorous and sensual side of early 20th-century Saigon, illustrated with 53 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS, mostly with drypoint and aquatint, by Henri Le Riche,...

La Genèse. Traduction Le Maistre de Sacy. Eaux-fortes de Jacques Houplain. (Genesis)

Moses (Le Maistre de Sacy, translator) (Jacques Houplain, illustrator) · 1949 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$750.00 (€678.81 | £567.00 | ¥119,901)

Paris, Chez Jean Porson, A UNIQUE COPY OF A MAGISTERIAL LIVRE D'ARTISTE. The most poetic French translation of the Book of Genesis, illustrated with 87 WONDERFUL ORIGINAL ETCHINGS BY JACQUES HOUPLAIN. An unnumbered copy beautifully printed on fine Rives laid paper. (The stat...

España sagrada. Lithographies originales de Jacques Birr.

Henry de Montherlant (Jacques Birr, illustrator) · 1967 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$495.00 (€448.02 | £374.22 | ¥79,135)

Paris, Les Bibliophiles de l'Automobile-Club de France, A SPECTACULAR UNIQUE COPY OF THIS LIVRE D'ARTISTE DEVOTED TO SPAIN IN GENERAL AND TO BULLFIGHTING IN PARTICULAR. Illustrated with 24 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY JACQUES BIRR, many double-page. The ten lettrines, one p...