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Denizot, Toussaint Souvenir de l'Occupation
Bedburdyck
Album with 21 pages of fine color drawings rendered in February and March, 1919 in the immediate aftermath of World War One during the French Occupation of Westphalia. The drawings were done by a French soldier, Toussaint Denizot, who was a cyclist with the 3rd company of the 97th Regiment in the Alpine Infantry. This was a regiment hailing from Chambery (in the Rhone Alps of Savoia in the Southeast of France) that was actively engaged on the Western Front during the entirety of the war. Most of the illustrations touch in some way on the war, whether in the depiction of death or loss, anti-German scenes, or light hearted moments, and even the drawings that might seem at first blush unrelated tend to have a subtle reference to it. The style of the drawings is emphatically naive, but there is a strength and cohesiveness to the imagery that suggest that this might well have been a deliberate choice by Denizot, as opposed to a consequence of artistic limitations. Because of this cohesion, the somber palette, the sheer beauty of the production, the album exudes an extraordinary power, making it a humble yet valuable documentary relic from the war to end all wars as seen by an ordinary soldier.
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1950.00 USD
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Hansi, aka Jean-Jacques Waltz, and Roulbot Illustrations by Hansi and Roulbot Tetes de Boches, etc.
Half Morocco Very Good Minus
Ten mounted caricature postcards by Hansi from the 1916 series, Tetes de Boches (this is the complete series), nine, by Roulbot, all relating to World War One. Hansi, the pen name of Jean-Jacques Waltz (1873 - 1951), was famous both as an illustrator and French patriot, the latter for his unflagging contribution to the French revanchist movement to reclaim the Alsace, lost as a result of the Franco-Prussian War, and returned to France after the First World War. Roulbot is an altogether more obscure figure about whom little has been discovered other than he was active as an poster artist during the First World War. (No works or records of him turn up on OCLC, although a few universities have copies of posters he designed.) The Hansi pictures are simple, humorous character portraits rendered in color, while the Roulbot drawings, all black and white line drawings, depict scenes in which the amusing caption explains what is going on. Children figure prominently in the Roulbot scenes; all of them, though, touch on the ongoing war in one way or another. The cards are all attractively mounted onto heavy card stock leaves within rectangular borders. There is no title page as such, but there is a presentation page. This copy was given to Abbe Jean Borde d'Arrere, Aumonier Militaire and Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, whose name and title is actually mounted onto the page, suggesting that the same album may have been given to a number of honorees. Nonetheless, this is a scarce item, with no copies to be found on OCLC. Cover substantially edgeworn and rubbed, with cloth mottled and soiled. The interior is tight and clean. Former owner's pencil inscription on ffep.
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750.00 USD
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Pictures by Joyce Dennys, verses by Hampden Gordon Rhymes of the Red Triangle Y.M.C.A.
London, New York John Lane, The Bodley Head Paper Pastedown on Boards Near Fine
N.d., circa 1918. 8vo. Unpaginated, 60 pp including prelims. Full of wonderful chromolithographic plates, 30 in all, depicting women and soldiers of World War One. The illustrations have a naive charm that efficiently capture the fashions, culture and ways of the era, and with the verse celebrate light-heartedly the good works done by women who ran the canteens that brought a little comfort and hominess to soldiers wounded or during respites from the front. Here we find the Sallys memorialized in the Kern musical starring Marilyn Miller just two years later, the ballerina that could have inspired Chiparus or Erte and who launched countless Art Deco bookend figurines, the matrons later spoofed in thirties comedies. With its dark olive-hued paper and block lettering, the book should also be appreciated as a cohesive production. Minor soiling to the paper pastedown.
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150.00 USD
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Radiguet, M. et Marcel Arnac Mode in Germany. Ligue Contre le Mauvais Gout Anglo-Francais Kolossale-Kollection
Paris Librairie Ollendorff Wraps Good
Undated, circa 1914 or 1915. Unpaginated, 8 leaves, or 16 pp., including wraps. Light anti-Boche humor as probably could only have occurred early in the Great War, before mounting casualties and its horrors might have made such jabs seem repugnantly frivolous. Really a collection of humorous bits, with the first being a mock declaration of the fictitious "Kolossale Association des Tailleurs, Kouturiers, Modistes, Koiffeurs Belinois", and this is followed by various takes on the supposed absurdity of German fashion, meaning fashion originating in Germany, as opposed to Paris. Scarce item, Chip on upper edge of front cover repaired with Japanese tissue. Several other nicks and signs of use along edges of wraps. First leaf within has edge stain and minor closed tear elsewhere.
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450.00 USD
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