Douze Contes [Twelve Tales]

[Fontenay-aux-Roses]: Rigal, 1950.

Price: $300.00

Softcover. Folio. Number 103 of 175 exemplaires sur vélin teinté des Papeteries de Rives B.F.K., numérotés de 76 à 250. Vus par Théo Van Elsen. Text in French. 18 unbound signatures in wrappers, housed in a wood-grained paper slipcase. Some tissue pages creased, near fine in a very good slipcase cracked and worn at the seams.

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Item #130746 Douze Contes [Twelve Tales]. Jean de LA FONTAINE.

Jean de La Fontaine
birth name: Jean de Fontaine
born: 7/8/1621
died: 4/13/1695

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Poet whose Fables (1668-94) rank among the masterpieces of French literature. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore