Paul-Margueritte, Lucie

TS'ING NGAI; OU LES PLAISIRS CONTRARIES, CONTE CHINOIS ANCIENT, ADAPTE DES KIN-KOU-KI-KOUAN [Signed]

Presses de A. Lahure, Imprimé aux dépens de l'auteur, 1927. Limited First Edition: #79/100. Loose Folio, 76, [4] pages of text, plus 16 paintings. In Very Good condition, with Very Good enclosures. Printed entirely on "japon impériale" paper, with illustrations painted on silk. Folio is in original blue paper wrappers, with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. This is housed in an ornate silk-bound two-fold enclosure, with a paper label on the front board and bone clasps. Outermost layer is a single-fold enclosure, quarter-bound in morocco leather with paper boards and gilt lettering to spine. Mild shelf wear to single-fold case, with rubbing to fore corners and along joints; mild bowing to front board. Two-fold case show very light wear, with light rubbing at the corners and a small area of chipping on the edge of the paper label. Folio shows light sunning along edges of the wrapper, with some wrinkling/creasing along the spine and small closed tears at the head and tail. Pages show mild age toning. Small creases and tears along the edges of the blank sheets included at the front. Silk paintings are adhered to paper and protected by attached glassine sheets. Limitation page, located near the end of the folio, is signed flat by Lucie Paul-Margueritte in blue ink. SH consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversize.

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $1,200

NOTES

Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.

This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US.