MARQUET (Albert) - MARTY (Marcelle). Moussa the little black boy. Paris: G. Crès & Cie, 1925. - In-8, 244 x 190: frontispiece, (2 ff.), 93 pp., (1 f.), 3 plates, printed cover. Beige box, dishes decorated with oriental line decoration, composed of straight and curved nets and golden, brown, red, green and orange scrolls, smooth back, beige box-edged lining, dark green suede guards, golden head, untrimmed, cover and back preserved, case (M. J. Guian Milliaud - L. & C. Berthaux gilder). Original edition of this story of Moussa, a little black boy from Touggourt arriving in Algiers. It was composed by Marcelle Marquet, wife of Albert Marquet, under the pseudonym Marcelle Marty. The work forms the second volume of the "collection of arts". Illustrated by the painter Albert MARQUET (1875-1947), the edition includes 21 reproductions of black drawings, 15 of which are in the text and 6 full-page, as well as 5 watercolours in colour, 4 of which are reproduced out of text and one at the head of the chapter. Circulation at 350 copies. One of the 300 on Rives vellum . Very nice copy. It is very rare to find a copy of this book so well bound.