HALOUZE (Édouard). Almanach du Masque d'or. First and second year. 1921-1922. Paris: Devambez, 1921-1922. - Two in-12 volumes, 130 x 97 and 172 x 104: (1 f.), 224 pp. 4 plates; (2 ff.), 107 pp. 14 ff. last 3 blank), 4 plates. White cardboard decorated with silhouettes of dancers and slipcase for the first year, yellow silk cardboard decorated with a bouquet of flowers stenciled by Durvand for the second year, black half-chagrin box-book, openwork composition on the boards using the cover and colors of Durvand's cardboard (publisher's boards, Guillotin's box-book). Reunion of the two years of this charming Art Deco almanac. This refined publication, which only had two issues, includes texts by Henri de Régnier, René Boylesve, Robert de Flers, Abel Hermant, Maurice Verne, Anna de Noailles and others. The illustrations include 8 delightful stencil-colored hors texte engravings by Édouard Halouze (4 in each volume), 12 color frames for the months and 20 black and color headbands in the text for 1921; 4 color headbands for the months and small black vignettes in the text for 1922. Each almanac is also illustrated in-fine with 16 and 7 pages of color-enhanced advertisements for the essential stores of Parisian elegant life: Prunier, Raimon, the Royal Topsy, Fast ("le libraire à la mode"), Cartier, Bourjois, Boissier, etc. Print runs of 1,000 and 525 copies. The second year is one of the 5 first copies on Japon paper (no. 3), with a double suite of plates by Édouard Halouze, in black and in color. It is signed in pencil by the artist at the justification. The other almanac is numbered 59. Beautiful set in a Guillotin book-box. Small tear on the spine of the first almanac. Some minor soiling to the cardboard of the second almanac.