Masereel, Frans

Figures et grimaces: soixante bois dessinés et gravés

Paris: Chez les Écrivains Réunis, 1926. First edition. Paperback. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Printed french fold wrappers in the publisher's glassine wrapper. The glassine wrapper has some sunning to the backstrip and edges. With 60 individual woodcuts. Copy 356 of 400 printed on vélin, after XV printed on japon impérial. A lovely copy. Ritter B-a-19. Very good. Item #61752

A rather overlooked entry from Frans Masereel's oeuvre; less of a wordless novel than a physiognomic portfolio of urban types. Printed at the press of Robert Coulouma at Argenteuil.

Price: $950.00