Casanova's Memoirs
New York: Willey Book Company, 1946.
Price: $475.00
Hardcover. First trade edition with these illustrations, preceded by a rare, privately printed 1930 edition. Edited by Joseph Monét. Illustrated and with jacket art by film director Vincente Minnelli. Small owner stamp on the front fly, and very faintly, on the front panel of the jacket, else very good plus in very good dustwrapper with small chips at the spine ends. Minnelli began his highly successful film career as a costume designer, a talent evident in his drawings here, which are of both a mildly erotic, and sartorially exotic nature. Very scarce, particularly in jacket.
Item #57005
