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Pourtalès, Guy de

Pourtalès, Guy de; Chopin ou le poète. Illustré de nombreuses photographies d'après les documents de l'époque. Inscribed copy. Limited edition. Librairie Gallimard, Paris, 1929. No. 546 on Alfa paper. First edition.
Hardbound 8vo in a nicely bound orange/red half morocco binding. Spine with five raised bands and gilt lyres in compartments. Gilt supra exlibris of Harald Wiens, Swedish book collector, on front board. His exlibris inside front board. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original wrappers and spine bound in. Slightly rubbed extremities and mildly sunned spine, else fine. Bound by the Swedish bookbinder Gustaf Hedberg with his label. Inscribed by the author to Harald Wiens on half title: à Monsieur H. Wiens Hommage de l'auteur Guy de Pourtales. Numerous black and white plates on glossy paper. 201 p. + illustrations