LARBAUD (Valéry) and CHAS LABORDE. Streets and Faces of Pari - Lot 228

LARBAUD (Valéry) and CHAS LABORDE. Streets and Faces of Paris. A vibrant ode to 1920s Paris, captured with humor by both the author and the illustrator. A fine first edition printed in a run of 133 copies, here on Arches vellum in its original slipcase. Paris, Editions de la Roseraie, 1926. Folio size, loose-leaf in a publisher’s half-white vellum slipcase with flaps and laces, green cardboard covers with a title vignette on the front. 2 unnumbered folios (frontispiece, title page, colophon), 16 pp., 20 full-page color etchings with captions, black vignettes in the text, including one on the etching page. Folder worn, vellum soiled, partial sun damage on the front cover, tears in the flaps. First edition illustrated with works by Chas-Laborde (1886–1941), including 20 full-page color etchings. Limited edition of 133 numbered copies; this one is one of 100 on Arches vellum (no. 80). An ode to Paris in thirteen amusing descriptions by Valéry Larbaud, labeled from A to M, enhanced by Chas Laborde’s vivid illustrations depicting scenes from various Parisian neighborhoods—from Ménilmontant to the Champs-Élysées, from a metro platform to a boxing ring. This is the first volume of the famous “Rues et visages” series, fully illustrated by Chas Laborde, which continued with London (1928), Berlin (1930), Moscow (1935), and New York (1950, posthumous). In good condition, clean interior.