BONNARD (Abel). - Lot 93

BONNARD (Abel). Le Bouquet du monde. Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1938]. -In-8, 188 x 138: (1 blank f.), 348 pp, (4 ff.), printed cover. Old pink morocco, boards and spine decorated with a gilt grid including every two intersections a flower in relief in dark old pink morocco or a gilt capital B, smooth spine decorated with the extension of the decoration on the boards, interior gilt filleting, wood-paper lining and endpapers, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, havana morocco spine and flap bands folder, lined slipcase (Creuzevault). First collective edition, partly original, of this collection of texts in which the writer gives his impressions of his travels. It contains: "Rome", "The Dalmatian Coast", "Athens", "Constantinople (1923)", "In China (1920)", "Andalusia (1924)" and "In Brazil". ONE OF THE 10 FIRST COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPON, this one bearing the number I, enriched with this fine autograph letter signed by the author to Countess Thérèse Murat (1870-1940): to Madame la // Comtesse Murat, // Le Bouquet du monde, // avec toutes les fleurs // que le cœur peut y ajouter, // with all the flowers // that the heart can add. that the heart can // add to it, // Abel Bonnard A superb, well-preserved copy bound by Creuzevault. Provenance: Countess Murat, with consignment from the author. - Colette Creuzevault.