FOUJITA (Léonard) - CLAUDEL (Paul). L'Oiseau Noir Dans le Soleil Levant. Paris : Excelsior, 1927. - In-8, 246 x 197 : frontispiece, (4 ff. first blank), 145 pp. (3 ff. last blank), 11 plates, illustrated cover. Half black morocco with wide bands, large vertical band of Japanese paper painted in the center of the boards, red morocco pastille bordered with 5 gilt rays of different lengths and gilt bird on the first board, smooth spine decorated with a red morocco pastille, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, slipcase (L. Strid) First edition of this collection composed by Claudel during his second stay in the Far East from 1921 to 1927. The author considered it as a complement to Connaissance de l'Est. The book is illustrated in the first edition with 23 compositions by Léonard FOUJITA (1886-1968), including an orange and black one on the cover, 10 drawings in black in the text and 12 original etchings in color outside the text. It also includes the last chapter presented in the form of a large folding table. Edition at 545 copies, this one being one of the 425 on Arches laid paper, very well bound by the Swedish binder Lars Strid. It comes from the library of Princess Jean Callimachi. Provenance : Princess Callimachi, with bookplate.