LAURENCIN (Marie). Little girls. S.l. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Belgique, [1942]. - In-4, 281 x 233: (24 ff. last 2 white), blue illustrated cover. White box, wide vertical strip running across the first course, made of strips painted with red and orange dots and wide green gradient fillets, rectangular piece of white box glued to the centre of the upper edge, decorated on the right and left edges with lines painted in green and red, green and orange dots, artist's name and title in green letters, smooth back, untrimmed, cover preserved , flat-backed white box case (Annie Boige 2006). Charming edition of this collection of 9 poems by the poet Renée de Brimont, illustrated with 8 drawings and a watercolour by Marie LAURENCIN (1883-1956), reproduced in full-page colour. The print run was limited to 409 copies plus a few nominative copies. This is one of the 8 on satin-finish esparto, after a single one on japanese, containing the original drawing signed by one of those reproduced in the book, as well as a series of illustrations on vellum (e.g. G). Copy of the photographer Willy Michel, enriched with a shipment of Marie Laurencin accompanied by a self-portrait as a " little girl" : To my friend // Willy Michel // This Marie little girl // Marie Laurencin / / July 1943Willy Michel (1904-1976) installed in 1928 one of the first Parisian booths in his art studio Photomaton. Bibliophile, great lover of autographs and fascinated by celebrities, he photographed himself for about twenty years with the stars of the moment. Very nice copy bound by Annie Boige, perfectly preserved.