BOUBOUROCHE MADELON MARGOT Limited Edition No. 658/850.
Paris: Georges Briffaut, 1927.
Illustrations de Joseph Hémard. First Edition. Hardcover. First Limited Edition BOUBOUROCHE MADELON MARGOT Limited Edition No. 658/850 In an exquisite Kieffer Binding. Full green morocco leather with raised bars, debossing on the front and back covers printed in dark green. Gilt stamping on the spine. Marbled endpapers, Kieffer ticket on the verso of the ffe. Top edge gilt. A near fine lovely example of one of Kieffer's contemporary bindings and Joseph Hémard's lively and often whimsical artwork that can be found throughout. Some edgewear and fading on the leather covers with a tiny vertical crack on the spine.
BOUBOUROCHE MADELON MARGOT is a collection of humorous and satirical plays by Georges Courteline (1858–1929), a French playwright and novelist known for his sharp wit and critique of bureaucracy and everyday absurdities.
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